NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
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Rocket Lab has filed a formal protest against NASA's decision to award Blue Origin a $700 million contract to build and launch a Mars orbiter. The protest argues that the selection process used to award the contract was flawed.
A decade of planning and a quarter-billion dollars in funding vanished in seconds when two teams speaking different measurement languages sent a spacecraft crashing into Mars. The post NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space appeared first on Space Daily .
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