The Sad Fate Of The Mars Climate Orbiter
The Mars Climate Orbiter was a $327,000,000 NASA project that launched a space probe on December 11, 1998 to study Martian weather in addition to other objectives.
Software aboard the space probe was designed to use the metric system. Due to human error, it was fed measurements from a different unit system. This led to it being in the wrong place and disintegrating in the Martian atmosphere on September 23, 1999.
Software aboard the space probe was designed to use the metric system. Due to human error, it was fed measurements from a different unit system. This led to it being in the wrong place and disintegrating in the Martian atmosphere on September 23, 1999.
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