Tech News: SpaceX's Starship Gets Off the Ground, Then Explodes
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The test launch of SpaceX's Starship was a success despite the fact that the launch vehicle later exploded high above the Gulf of Mexico. There are more battles happening around the subject of artificial intelligence. And if you used Facebook between 2007 and 2022, you can file a claim to get a share in a massive class action lawsuit.
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| 0:00.0 | Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade. |
| 0:07.0 | He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero. |
| 0:13.7 | His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood |
| 0:20.3 | who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio, and how the tech are ya? |
| 0:52.0 | It's time for the tech news for Thursday, April 20th, 2023. |
| 0:59.0 | So it's 420 and fittingly enough, our first story is one where technology went up in smoke. |
| 1:06.0 | So first up, Space X's Starship launched this morning after scrubbing the previously scheduled launch earlier this week. |
| 1:15.0 | A frozen valve was the reason behind the earlier cancellation, but today, the world's largest, most powerful launch vehicle in our history of space exploration. |
| 1:27.0 | Lift it up, off its platform in South Texas to hurdle toward orbit, though it did not actually get there. |
| 1:36.0 | Because around 4 minutes after launch, things got spicy. |
| 1:41.0 | The first stage engines cut off as planned, but the second stage failed to separate from the first stage. |
| 1:50.0 | The launch vehicle began spinning, and then there was a burst of flame and an explosion with the vehicle breaking apart in the process. |
| 1:59.0 | Or as Space X's Twitter feed put it, Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly. |
| 2:08.0 | The SpaceX team stressed that the main goal of this test was to clear the launch tower, you know, to actually get a launch and a lift off and to clear the launch tower. |
| 2:19.0 | Which the Starship did. So with that in mind, the test was a success. |
| 2:24.0 | It's easy to say otherwise because subsequently it then exploded, but it was clearly a disappointment that the spacecraft was unable to deliver the payload into orbit as hoped. |
| 2:35.0 | Regardless, the launch vehicle has more tests ahead in its future, even if the test had been completely successful. |
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