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NASA admits mix-up
By Matthew Fordhal
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The $125
million spacecraft that was de
stroyed on a mission to Mars last
week was probably doomed by
NASA scientists’ embarrassing
failure to convert English units of
measurement to metric ones, the
space agency said Thursday.
The Mars Climate Orbiter flew
too close to Mars and is believed
to have broken apart or burned up
in the atmosphere.
NASA said the English-vs.-met
ric mixup apparently caused the
navigation error.
The mistake was particularly
embarrassing because the space
craft had successfully flown 416
million miles over 9 1/2 months
before its disappearance Sept. 23
just as it was about to go into orbit
around the Red Planet.
Agency officials said the mistake
somehow escaped what is sup
posed to be a rigorous error-check
ing process. A report is expected in
mid-November, which would be
soon enough to fix any possible
similar problems with a spacecraft
already en route to Mars.
“It does not make us feel good
that this happened,” said Tom
Gavin of NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. “This mixup has
caused us to look at our entire end
to-end process. We will get to the
bottom of this.”
JPL said its preliminary findings
showed that Lockheed Martin As
tronautics in Colorado submitted
acceleration data in English units
of pounds of force instead of the
metric unit called newtons. At
JPL, the numbers were entered
into a computer that assumed met
ric measurements.
“In our previous Mars missions,
we have always used metric,”
Gavin said.
The numbers were used in figur
ing force of thruster firings used by
the spacecraft to adjust its position.
The bad numbers had been
used ever since the spacecraft’s
launch last December, but the ef
fect was so small that it went un
noticed. The difference added up
over the months as the spacecraft
journeyed toward Mars.
Gavin said he does not expect
the error to affect NASA’s relation
ship with Lockheed Martin Astro
nautics, which has built several
probes for the space agency.
Lockheed Martin acknowl
edged the mistake. “We should
have had them in metric units,”
said Noel Hinners, vice president
of flight systems for Lockheed
Martin Astronautics in Denver.
The Mars Climate Orbiter was
on a mission to study the Red
Planet’s weather and look for signs
of water — information key to un
derstanding whether life ever ex
isted or can exist there. It carried
cameras along with equipment for
measuring temperature, dust, wa
ter vapor and clouds.
The orbiter’s sibling spacecraft,
Mars Polar Lander, is set to arrive
Dec. 3. Gavin said investigators are
trying to determine whether
NASA made the same mistake
with that spacecraft. The problem
could be fixed if it did occur.
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