REFLECTOR: mixed units
David Staten
david.staten at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 13:50:16 CDT 2008
HYTEC45 at aol.com wrote:
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> Al
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> Wasn't it something like this that caused the Mars Polar explorer to
> crash during orbit insertion??
> TEC
Yes. They did some of the calcs in meters/km.. and some in FPS/MPH.. and
didn't properly convert between the two. The device shut off the descent
motor x number of meters above the surface instead of x number of feet..
or something like that.
Faster better cheaper..
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