ARIANE 5 — Flight 501 Failure¶
Lions, J. (1996). ARIANE 5 — Flight 501 Failure: Report by the Inquiry Board.
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- Integer Overflow
- The overflow raised an operand error the surrounding code did not handle; the module shut down, its diagnostic output was misread as flight data by the backup computer, and a destructive attitude correction about 37 seconds after launch drove the vehicle to an angle of attack under which it began to break up at about 39 seconds.
This sourceThe official inquiry board report establishing the unhandled Operand Error in the horizontal-bias conversion, the shutdown of both inertial reference systems, the diagnostic bit pattern consumed as flight data, the destructive attitude command at about H0+37 s and the launcher's break-up at about H0+39 s under an angle of attack above 20 degrees.
- The overflow raised an operand error the surrounding code did not handle; the module shut down, its diagnostic output was misread as flight data by the backup computer, and a destructive attitude correction about 37 seconds after launch drove the vehicle to an angle of attack under which it began to break up at about 39 seconds.
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