Re: Ariane Failure

[Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lfwc.lockheed.com>]

Robert B. Love wrote:
> 
> If I understand what I read here the earlier comments about
> the failed Ariane-5 indicated that the flight s/w was coded
> in Ada.  The blurb I've read in Space News says the code
> that failed resided in the inertial measurement units.

From what I saw, the European Space Agency preliminary announcement
didn't refer to _any_ code, in either the flight controller or the
INU. It said that there was a fault in the INU _system_. We won't know
until at least the final report later in July whether this was a 
software fault, a dual hardware fault, an interface/design error, or 
what.

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