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Mars Climate Orbiter: The Unit Mismatch That Sent a Spacecraft Off Course

Mars Climate Orbiter was lost when ground software produced thruster-impulse data in pound-force seconds while the navigation interface expected newton-seconds, and project processes failed to detect the mismatch.

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