19 Oct
2004
19 Oct
'04
8:11 p.m.
Dale Hooper wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996541
It seems the deceleration sensors on the Genesis space probe were designed "upside down", resulting in the crash of the capsule! Another ooops for Lockheed Martin. This is as bad as messing up SI units and English units for MCO (Mars Climate Orbiter).
Didn't they also build the Mars Polar Lander (descent engine shut off too high when an on board sensor *thought* the probe had touched down and the probe crashed). Let's just hope they didn't build Stardust... Patrick