Also, unless you love maths, why bother with the imperial units? Miles per second?? Who is that for?
(, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 14:59, Reply)
Millilitres per second sounds like a setting for a drip. kms-1 is more like it.
(, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 17:58, Reply)
NASA was using SI units like proper engineers and scientists, except the sub-contract Lockheed Martin team, who were working in cubits or something.
The probe entered Mars atmosphere for aerobraking at about 1/3 the altitude that was planned - about 50 km up instead of the planned 220 km - and broke up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
(, Wed 29 Dec 2021, 12:48, Reply)