The one thing that upset me watching the Artemis II mission broadcast was the constant use of imperial units.
NASA uses metric units internally. They had to intentionally translate than back into imperial units for the livestream. Please, folks. Use the better units.
You might be referring to the Mars Climate Orbiter mishap. It crashed into the atmosphere because NASA used SI units, while Lockheed Martin, who worked as a contractor, used imperial. Specifically, what fucked it up was the measurement of impulse of the thrusters (pound-force-seconds vs newton-seconds)
At least China uses the metric system, which makes them better than the US /j
The one thing that upset me watching the Artemis II mission broadcast was the constant use of imperial units.
NASA uses metric units internally. They had to intentionally translate than back into imperial units for the livestream. Please, folks. Use the better units.
Isn’t this why they wrote off two Mars missions?
You might be referring to the Mars Climate Orbiter mishap. It crashed into the atmosphere because NASA used SI units, while Lockheed Martin, who worked as a contractor, used imperial. Specifically, what fucked it up was the measurement of impulse of the thrusters (pound-force-seconds vs newton-seconds)
Is it even imperialism when they don’t use the imperial system?