Ariane V: Maybe not flight control software?

[Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>]

From today's Aerospace Daily:

      "An inertial platform malfunction may have caused failure of the
 Ariane V booster on its first flight June 4 from Kourou, French Guiana.
      "The European Space Agency said 'a large part of the equipment
 contained in the vehicle equipment bay has been recovered and inspected"
 and "has revealed the existence of a malfunction relating to the
 inertial platforms in Ariane V operating mode.'"

 This ties in with the AW&ST article, which stated that the INS communications
 path that sends data to the flight control computer is different from the
 path that sends INS data to telemetry.

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