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ariane 5 explosion

first launch of ariane 5 in 1996 :D  
 
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myfood123 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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ahaha
guiguipsp (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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it's beautiful
BKofficer23 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Wow, 11 years and 7 billin dollars...then this. What a kick in the balls.
pashaahsj (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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it was a "floating point binary overflow" according to my A2-Computing Textbook :D

awesome xD
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That is what i described down below :-)
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wie kann man ne rakete Ariane 5 nennen?:D:D:D:D:D:D
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The software of the stearing system was taken from the ariane 4, which was a bit slower then ariane 5. In the binary number system this caused a 0 at the first place to switch to a 1. The first bit in such a number describes the number to be positive or negative. So suddenly a measured value turned from positive to negative. This caused an incredible hard change of the heading by the navigation system. The hard turn made the body collapse. The the software error caused the fact you described.
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