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)
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
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)