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"The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit ('Am
by aguywithamum 12y ago
"The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit ('American'), contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, that used those results expected them to be in metric units, in accord with the SIS."
- RankingMember 12y agoThat's in reference to the Beagle 2?
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- aguywithamum 12y agoYeah, that's in reference to the failure of Beagle 2. It's on the page that was linked by Someone1234 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...).
- TorKlingberg 12y agoThe Beagle 2 and Mars Climate Orbiter are not the same thing. It is unknown why Beagle 2 failed and there is no reason to believe it was due to any unit mismatch. It may be that two of the solar panels failed to deploy.
- warkdarrior 12y agoIt's well known that the metric solar panels failed to deploy. The imperial solar panels opened successfully, but that did not generate enough electricity to keep going.