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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 6 months ago

TIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.

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TIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.

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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 6 months ago

Metric vs Imperial Units: How NASA lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars

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Imagine a simple conversion error caused a multi-million dollar mission to go puff! We explore how the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999.

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I remember this on the news as a kid. Oh how I laughed… now as a taxpaying adult - “#$$#@!!!”

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