Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris

Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: FAA report obtained by ProPublica, Eric Gay/AP. When SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket exploded over the Caribbean last year, the internet lit up with videos from airline passengers, island tourists and locals showing flaming debris shooting across the sky. Even some airline pilots recorded the fiery aftermath as planes scrambled to move out of its path . Some of those videos of Starship’s seventh test flight — including ones taken…