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Ya'll Nibbiars for the DLI would take a much larger rocket. NEP is good but many technical problems and I meant the Ion Propulsion for long range not for the Moon.No, not mars. Ion propulsion has very less thrust ,hence very low acceleration which is not useful for short burns like Trans Lunar Insertion and Lunar Orbit Insertion.If we use ion thruster we have to slowly raise the apogee of the orbit to reach moon, it would literally take atleast 6 months