ESA Mars Lander Failure

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Re: ESA Mars Lander Failure

Postby tanya_wam » Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:15 am

PM2K wrote:Remember the Mars Explorer? It smacked into Mars too, because the scientists screwed up the conversion from feet to meters, or was that vice versa?
Anyway, scratch one billion dollar space probe.


Seriously? :shock: I'd say a conversion like that isn't exactly rocket science, but then... :lol:
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Re: ESA Mars Lander Failure

Postby kham » Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:46 am

It isn't but, orbital mechanics and spaceflight does not grade on a curve :twisted: And a fail, well, at BEST you end up on CNN. So far, only robots. But human pilots can correct. And aren't 9-20 light-minutes away trying to fly remote
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Re: ESA Mars Lander Failure

Postby Duncan Edwards » Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:27 am

tanya_wam wrote:
PM2K wrote:Remember the Mars Explorer? It smacked into Mars too, because the scientists screwed up the conversion from feet to meters, or was that vice versa?
Anyway, scratch one billion dollar space probe.


Seriously? :shock: I'd say a conversion like that isn't exactly rocket science, but then... :lol:


Yeah seriously. It was a screw up with Lockheed-Martin at the Denver facility that built the thing. After that, NASA administrator Dan Goldin made it clear that EVERYTHING down the the janitors was metric from then on.
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