From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,82c2596e4584d057 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "P. Cnudde VH14 (8218)" Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure - Summary Report Date: 1996/07/26 Message-ID: <31F8D934.15FB7483@sh.bel.alcatel.be>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170280340 references: <31F60E8A.2D74@lmtas.lmco.com> <31F629B8.5FFB@lmtas.lmco.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Alcatel Telecom mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) Date: 1996-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Con Bradley wrote: > > I have read the report on the Ariane 5 failure and feel that > somebody should congratulate ESA for their remarkable candour > in making this report so widely available. I agree fully with you on this point, but you should not forget that they are using our money (our = european taxpayers) to finance there projects so they owe something to the public. I read the report and I found it nost interesting lecture. My personal conclusion is that no matter what effort you put in a system, it can always go wrong. (I don't say you should not put all the possible effort in it, otherwise it will certainly go wrong) > > It is a pity that other organizations are not so willing to > go public on their mistakes. It's even worse, people get fired when they try to mistakes public. > SGS Thomson Microelectronics Limited A Microelectronics collegue in comp.lang.ada, interesting ! -- ____________ Peter Cnudde \ / Alcatel Telecom \ ALCATEL/ Switching Systems Division \ BELL / Microelectronics Design Center \ / \ / F. Wellesplein 1, B-2018 Antwerp \/ BELGIUM e-mail : cnuddep@sh.bel.alcatel.be Phone : +32 3 240 82 18 Fax : +32 3 240 99 47