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NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because engineering teams used different measuring units

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NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter was destroyed because Lockheed Martin used English units (pounds) while the navigation team expected metric units (newtons), resulting in fatal trajectory errors.

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Wikipedia: Mars Climate Orbiter

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science.nasa.gov: Mars Climate Orbiter - NASA Science

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Notes the orbiter failed due to a navigation error caused by failing to translate English units to metric.

science.org: A System Fails at Mars, a Spacecraft Is Lost | Science

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Confirms the root cause was the misuse of English units instead of metric-seconds for thruster data.

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first checked31 Jul 2026

judged → SUPPORTED · 7531 Jul 2026

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