$327M Lost Because of One Unit Conversion



One missed unit conversion turned a $327 million Mars mission into one of engineering’s most famous failures.

This video breaks down how pound-force seconds and newton-seconds caused NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter to drift off course and burn up.

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