IV.A. CONVERSIONS According to the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board Phase I Report, Executive Summary,...

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IV.A. CONVERSIONS According to the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board Phase I Report, Executive Summary, page 6* (Nov 10 1999), The MCO... was lost sometime following the spacecraft's entry into Mars occultation .... [T]he root cause for the loss... was the failure to use metric units in the coding of ... software ... used in trajectory models. Specifically, thruster performance data in English units instead of metric units was used in the software application code titled SM FORCES (small forces). A file called Angular Momentum Desaturation (AMD) contained the output data from the SM FORCES software. The data in the AMD file was required to be in metric units and the trajectory modelers assumed the data was provided in metric units per the requirements. ... Write a program to convert from English units to metric units, specifically: ... *** • to convert volume from barrels to milliliters, AND • to convert speed from knots to meters per second. For your conversions, you MUST use the following constant values AND NO OTHERS, declaring and initializing appropriate named constants (you are ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN to combine these in initializations): . There are 42 U.S. gallons per barrel. . There are 4 U.S. quarts per U.S. gallon. . There are 1.05669 U.S. quarts per liter. . There are 1000 milliliters per liter. • There are 1.1507794 mph per knot (note that “mph” is short for “miles per hour”). • There are 1.609344 kilometers per mile. • There are 1000 meters per kilometer. • There are 60 minutes per hour. • There are 60 seconds per minute. IV.A. CONVERSIONS According to the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board Phase I Report, Executive Summary, page 6* (Nov 10 1999), The MCO... was lost sometime following the spacecraft's entry into Mars occultation .... [T]he root cause for the loss... was the failure to use metric units in the coding of ... software ... used in trajectory models. Specifically, thruster performance data in English units instead of metric units was used in the software application code titled SM FORCES (small forces). A file called Angular Momentum Desaturation (AMD) contained the output data from the SM FORCES software. The data in the AMD file was required to be in metric units and the trajectory modelers assumed the data was provided in metric units per the requirements. ... Write a program to convert from English units to metric units, specifically: ... *** • to convert volume from barrels to milliliters, AND • to convert speed from knots to meters per second. For your conversions, you MUST use the following constant values AND NO OTHERS, declaring and initializing appropriate named constants (you are ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN to combine these in initializations): . There are 42 U.S. gallons per barrel. . There are 4 U.S. quarts per U.S. gallon. . There are 1.05669 U.S. quarts per liter. . There are 1000 milliliters per liter. • There are 1.1507794 mph per knot (note that “mph” is short for “miles per hour”). • There are 1.609344 kilometers per mile. • There are 1000 meters per kilometer. • There are 60 minutes per hour. • There are 60 seconds per minute.

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