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IIRC, it was an accumulation of errors when converting between units, not a unit mis-match.
by jimktrains2 14y ago
IIRC, it was an accumulation of errors when converting between units, not a unit mis-match.
- wr1472 14y agoRoot cause is still a unit mis-match though.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoNot exactly, ultimately it was just that. The problem was that there was a spec for a file format for data from the spacecraft that was supposed to be in metric units, but some of the data was in imperial units, against the spec. This resulted in a course deviation which ultimately doomed the spacecraft. That said, there were warning signs that something was wrong which the ops team didn't pick up on but should have.