2000-11-22
I heard something about it but don't know any details. Either the land
people used statute miles and the satellite people used nautical miles (or
vice-versa), or one used kilometres, and the other one of mile types and the
person reporting it is assuming the kilometre is another type of mile.
Can you press this person for more information?
John
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Subject: [USMA:9289] Another space disaster from unit confusion?
On the Metrology Forum I subscribe to, a participant posted an allusion
to an early Space Wars disaster during Reagan's term. Apparently, the
ground controllers for the land-based laser used one kind of mile (or
other unit of measurement) and the target satellite people used another
kind of mile during one of the system's first tests, resulting in a wide
"miss" by the laser beam. Does anyone recall or know anything about this
alleged event?
Jim
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