00:0069 tons of thrust per engine means 8,877 tons of thrust for the booster. That corresponds to a
00:09thrust to weight ratio of 1.8, which is great because it gives you an extremely high engine
00:15out capability. But in the long run you actually don't want to lose any engines during flight,
00:20so such a high engine out capability isn't really necessary, it's just so much that it almost hurts.
00:26A thrust to weight ratio between 1.2 and 1.5 is completely sufficient. If you consider that the
00:33Raptor's development is already quite advanced but by no means finished, then the thought that
00:38the Raptor could become even more powerful in the future is very tempting to me. Therefore,
00:44it makes sense that SpaceX might extend the system a bit in the future,
00:48or they might just leave it as it is and simply have enormous payload capacities.
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