SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy
Health & Fitness
- I’ve been sick this week & haven’t trained any Jiu Jitsu
- Hygiene is critically important in BJJ
- To protect my training partners I sat this week out
- I’m planning a future episode just on Hygiene
Space News
- We had a big week
- I saw Ad Astra with my lady & it was pretty good! Maybe that’s its own episode I’ll wait
- SpaceX & Elon Musk’s held the 4th annual update on their mission to colonize the planet Mars at an event at the company's facility in Bolsa Chica, Texas
- Mostly the launch vehicle, spacecraft, & all of the technology needed to get us there
- What was originally called the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT)
- Then called the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR)
- & what is now called Starship & Super Heavy
- The MCT & BFR were conceptual designs that never left paper & pixels but were critical steps in SpaceX’s iterative design process, that is uncommon in aerospace
- Whereas Starship & Superheavy development is in contrast well underway
- We’re going to start from the bottom of this vehicle & work our way upward
- Starting with a completely new rocket engine that SpaceX calls it’s Raptor Engine
- The Raptor is an absolute beast & has already raised the bar in a few...