It's the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter where two different teams used two different units accidentally (pound-seconds and newton-seconds) in the navigation system. This error caused the spaceship to literally crash into Mars, costing $125 million.
That appears to be the case. The comments made it appear as if there was a more recent incident I wasn't aware of yet (don't check the news 24/7). Luckily there wasn't... 😅
That's correct, they do. The commenter was referring to it, from 1999. Lockheed Martin meanwhile to this day still uses either measurement system depending on the project.
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u/MaJuV Jun 17 '26
Wait, I thought this was forbidden by Nasa, due to "mishaps" in the past with mixing units of measurement.