Also don't forget it at no point can it turn around and face the earth or sun or the light coming from the suns direction will burn out the optics. If it does i

Also don't forget it at no point can it turn around and face the earth or sun or the light coming from the suns direction will burn out the optics. If it does it once, and it's mission over. All the while essentially driving most of the way up out of the gravity well and letting it get pulled back to earth a little and repeating. If it goes too far over the peak of the hill it will go over the other side with no way to reverse even if the rocket has the fuel.