Just 82 kg of xenon powered ESA's SMART-1 to the Moon. It spiralled outward for about 13 months before entering lunar orbit on 15 November 2004. Its ion thruster reached a specific impulse of 1,640 seconds, more than three times the maximum for chemical rockets.
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