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Look at this NASA animation of two solar probes orbiting the Sun (thanks ostacke and DiggyJohnson):

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3966/

One probe, Parker I assume, goes through all the planetary flybys to achieve its solar orbit. The other just drops into an even closer solar orbit. Why not do that for both probes?

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