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Re:How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of) by ClumsyPilot on Friday May 14, 2021 @06:02AM (#27152604)
Not to accuse spaceX of anything, but I've witnessed companies sell 'hyper-localised weather" where they take public weather information and average the nearest two datapoints to you.

So I always take 'secret' 'proprietary' data and algorythms with a bit of salt, as almost every time I dug into them, it was all spin on previous public stuff.

Re:How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of) by loudmax on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:05AM (#27153804)
In this case, SpaceX is actually landing those Falcon boosters pretty reliably now. So maybe their secret proprietary stuff isn't as advanced as they make it out to be, but whatever they're doing it does seem effective.