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minus-squareseejur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 年前Curious, since NASA uses metric. How do the two industries work together?
minus-squareephemerality@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 年前interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.
Curious, since NASA uses metric. How do the two industries work together?
interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.