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This Gateway orbit is so fucking stupid. Why not just a tighter orbit around L2? You could send something from L2 to Mars transfer orbit with a fucking SRB or an AlOx rocket made out of moon dirt. Hell, you could literally have astronauts on a rotating torus station get a running start and kick it out the airlock and then deploy a solar sail (either a plasma magnet meme or photon foil), and it'd still be able to reach Mars. This faggotronic orbit is actually farther from the lunar surface than L2 is most of the time, and also sacrifices all the orbital hax enabled by a Lagrange point. I swear this was deliberately put in the stupidest possible orbit so they needed SLS Block 2 or refuelable Starships to finish the thing.

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When Joseph McCarthy was stopped from finishing the job.

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Anon you do know how to describe spacecraft motion right? https://www.coursera.org/learn/spacecraft-dynamics-kinematics