Comment on NASA scrubs ESCAPADE launch due to ‘highly elevated solar activity’ by Ross Warren

It is hard to believe that the huge New Glenn vehicle doesn’t have enough performance to put these two small “cubesats” on a direct insertion orbit to Mars. Why do they have to waste a year hanging around at L-1 and get a gravity assist from Earth to begin their 11-month journey?

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