Ep 91 Mini Failure 08 Mars Climate Orbiter

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.

This week’s Mini Failure is about the Mars Climate Orbiter. Due to unit conversion errors, a space probe crashed into the Martian surface, a really, expensive mistake, setting back Mars data collection for years. 

Episode Sources

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

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbiter/in-depth/

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