Post #1646749
2026-04-17 10:17 UTC
Isn’t this why they wrote off two Mars missions?
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@ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2026-04-17 11:05
You might be referring to the Mars Climate Orbiter. It crashed into the atmosphere because NASA used SI units, while Lockheed Martin, who worked as a contractor, used imperial. Specifically, for the amount of impulse of the the thrusters (pound-force-seconds vs newton-seconds)