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What do you mean?

Hi EP

For a VASIMR 1/6 gee isn't easy at max Isp - thrust power is 1.62*294,000*0.5 = 238 kW/kg(ship mass) - so I don't think it's a viable power-level anytime soon. At 25% engine mass that's 1 MW/kg which is way past any magnetoplasmadynamic drive even vaguely on drawing boards.

Only Orions get megawatt/kg power-levels, but no one is seriously proposing one of those for lunar missions.

Adam

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