Ariane 5 facts
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Ariane 5, a $7 Billion rocket crashed just due to a simple integer overflow (16-bit instead of 64-bit) , setting back European Space Agency by $400 Million and 4 years.
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About Ariane 5, a heavy lift launch vehicle of ESA which costed 7 billion USD, was destroyed after 40 seconds of its launch, due to conversion of a 64-bit data to 16-bit
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The Ariane 5 rocket exploded 39 seconds after launch because of a simple software bug – it was unable to recognise numbers above 32,767
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Because code from the Ariane 4's gudance system was blindly copied to the Ariane 5, The first flight of the Ariane 5 resulted in a crash caused by a software bug.
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The maiden flight of the $500m Ariane 5 space rocket failed because of a single conversion error in the software that caused the inertial navigation system and flight computer to crash.
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The Ariane 5 Rocket blew up because of an overflow error.
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