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[–] seejur@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Curious, since NASA uses metric. How do the two industries work together?

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[–] ephemerality@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago

interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.

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