Here is a link about how NASA is sending out a cube satellite for educational and non-profit organizations. It brings up how NASA still does not adhere to government requirements and measure their devices in metric units. It's humorous because after all the damage and money lost from the Mars disaster, you think NASA would know better.
Link here: http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/02/nasa-still-cant.html

-Barry

The Metric Mistake

Today we looked more into where the communication first started to get lost:

On December 11, 1998 the mars climate orbiter was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Ten months later, on September 23, 1999, NASA lost touch with the Climate Orbiter just as it was approaching the red planet. They never regained communication, and the $125 million spacecraft was considered a complete loss. 

http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/9909_30_mars.metric_1_mars-orbiter-climate-orbiter-spacecraft-team?_s=PM:TECH

                                                          

The purpose of this blog is to talk about the importance of proper business communication.  NASA and Raytheon made a vital communication mistake using different units in 1999 during the mission to mars.  This resulted in a loss of $193.1M for the Climate Orbiter spacecraft, $42.8M for mission operations and $91.7M for the launch cost.  Our group will get into greater detail throughout the semester of where the wrong turn was made.