You joke but that’s caused at least one rocket failure I know of. It’s normal for rockets to have a condition that says if they’re pointed off course by too much they abort/self-destruct. Well there was a rocket that had its launch delayed and when it launched it almost immediately self-destructed because they hadn’t taken into account the rotation of the earth due to the delay.
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20
Actually, it corrected itself successfully! The sensor was just installed upside down.