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NASA Still Can't Get That Metric Stuff Right (update)

NASA Announces Next Opportunity for CubeSat Space Missions “CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The cube-shaped satellites are approximately four inches long, have a volume of about one quart and weigh about 3 pounds.” Keith’s note: Inches? Quarts? Pounds? What happened to the NASA policy directing the use metric units? Curiously, if you read the official CubeSat Design Specification Rev. 12, from California Polytechnic State University (an […]

  • NASA Watch
  • August 14, 2012