"Americans dominate the space industry" is presumably what they meant, and not inaccurate. On the other hand, even the American space industry uses metric.

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gorlilla a year ago | parent [-]

Hubble wasn't so sure.

	▲	dspillett a year ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nor was Mars Polar Lander – the most likely cause of its loss was a mistake in units that resulted in it using too short a deceleration burn as it prepared to land, meaning it hit the surface far faster than intended (IIRC we don't know for sure if it impacted in one piece, broke apart during descent). Tabloid headlines of the time dubbed the mission as a “close encounter of the thud kind”.
	▲	dakr a year ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not a consequence of units used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Flawed_...