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In 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter took a trip to investigate the Red Planet's atmosphere. The spacecraft approached Mars in September, but suddenly lost contact between the probe and staff on Earth. The investigations showed that the probe had approached Mars at a much lower altitude than planned. Instead of going to 147 km (87 miles) above the Martian surface, the data collected indicated that Mars was a path that would lead to only 57 km (35 miles) from the surface. What do you think happened? The spacecraft was burned in the atmosphere of Mars! How could this happen? Research indicates that the failure was due primarily a problem with the unit conversion .
In LockheedMartín Astronautics, which built the spacecraft, engineers calculated the navigation data in English units. When scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA received the data, they assumed that the information was in metric units, as called for in the specifications of the mission. Not made the conversion units and a spacecraft 125 million was lost on the red planet causing embarrassment for many people.
not the only case, also an Air Canada in 1983 ran out of fuel in the middle loaded flight as 22.300 pounds of fuel instead of 22.300 kg were needed, like a pound is a mass of 0.45 kg, the aircraft was less than half the needed fuel.
These incidents highlight the importance of using appropriate units, to carry out properly the unit conversions and work with one system of units.
In 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter took a trip to investigate the Red Planet's atmosphere. The spacecraft approached Mars in September, but suddenly lost contact between the probe and staff on Earth. The investigations showed that the probe had approached Mars at a much lower altitude than planned. Instead of going to 147 km (87 miles) above the Martian surface, the data collected indicated that Mars was a path that would lead to only 57 km (35 miles) from the surface. What do you think happened? The spacecraft was burned in the atmosphere of Mars! How could this happen? Research indicates that the failure was due primarily a problem with the unit conversion .
In LockheedMartín Astronautics, which built the spacecraft, engineers calculated the navigation data in English units. When scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA received the data, they assumed that the information was in metric units, as called for in the specifications of the mission. Not made the conversion units and a spacecraft 125 million was lost on the red planet causing embarrassment for many people.
not the only case, also an Air Canada in 1983 ran out of fuel in the middle loaded flight as 22.300 pounds of fuel instead of 22.300 kg were needed, like a pound is a mass of 0.45 kg, the aircraft was less than half the needed fuel.
These incidents highlight the importance of using appropriate units, to carry out properly the unit conversions and work with one system of units.
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