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Other than the Mars rover what other engineering blunders were results of faulty measurement?
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∙ 13y ago
The Hubble Space Telescope cost about $1.5 billion to build and place into orbit. From its first pictures, imaging teams realized there was a problem. It turns out the primary mirror was ground incorrectly. The curvature was not to specification, and as an image was analyzed from the center out, the clarity of the image fell off. Poor resolution at the edges of an image made analysis of anything little more than a point object out of the question.
The problem was traced to a null corrector at the mirror manufacturer's site. It was assembled with incorrect spacing in a component, and the null corrector was then used to check the mirror and guide grinding during the shaping of the surface of the reflector. The flaw in the instrument was translated onto the mirror.
A link to the Wikipedia article on the Hubble is provided. So is one to a N.Y. Times article on the glitch.
Incidentally, the Mars Rovers have been spectacularly successful, and continue operating a full six years beyond their expected mission lifespan. The question might be referring to the unsuccessful Mars Climate Orbiter, which was launched in December, 1998.
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∙ 16y ago== == The Mars 232 crashed!
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What major engeneering blunders were results of faulty measurements?
The Gimli Glider incident. It was found that the refueling was done in imperial units, while the aircraft's gauges were in metric.
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a rule of thumb stating that when faulty data are fed into a computer, the information that emerges will also be faulty.
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What major engineering blunder were the result of faulty measurement?
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The Gimli Glider incident. It was found that the refueling was done in imperial units, while the aircraft's gauges were in metric.
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What were major engineering blunders due to faulty measurement?
The most famous one that I can remember is the Great Kersten Blunder(Kersten was the programer that made the error). The Vigor space probe was sent towards Venus, but because of the computer programing error installed on it had a converting program for millimeters to inches, but it divided by 24.5 instead of 25.4. This error caused it to miss Venus completely and was sent hurling into space. Over 2 billion dollars of technology was lost because of one simple error.The Mars Climate Orbiter had a problem when trajectory programming teams from Europe and USA were working in two different measurement systems , imperial and metric. It missed the planet completely and was lost.
