> Why remove it when you can just deflect the rocket by the gravity of Venus and redirect the rocket directly towards the sun? The fundamental thing you are mi

> Why remove it when you can just deflect the rocket by the gravity of Venus and redirect the rocket directly towards the sun? The fundamental thing you are missing is that to point the rocket directly at the sun required removing all of the orbital velocity. If you were to just point a rocket directly at the sun ignoring its relative motion and burn you would never actually hit the sun. You would just burn forever and never make any progress.