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SpaceX used tourist videos to study Starship crash, report finds
Original: A new report obtained by ProPublica shows SpaceX used videos from Club Med tourists and Disney cruise attendees to learn
A ProPublica report shows SpaceX gathered videos from Club Med tourists and Disney cruise attendees to investigate last year's Starship rocket crash. One expert described the company as using the public to fill gaps in its own data. The finding is drawing attention to how SpaceX supplements official monitoring with footage shot by bystanders.
Why now: The unusual reliance on vacationers' footage for a major rocket investigation is newly revealed in a ProPublica report.
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- A new report obtained by ProPublica shows SpaceX used videos from Club Med tourists and Disney cruise attendees to learn more about a Starship rocket crash last year, seemingly using “the public to fill the gap,” in the view of one expert. https://www.… · ProPublica@newsie.social · 21
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