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What‘s really funny about this, if I remember correctly, they needed this code only for the first 5 seconds into flight but wouldn‘t turn it off until 40 seconds into flight. The rocket exploded at T+39 seconds. Our Professor at one of my lectures told us that story to show why unchecked conversions are bad 😂
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@PuzzlesDev Nein
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@cst1992 link?
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@teequila yes it is. Got the same almost 10 years ago.
The story of the $500,000,000 error.
In 1996, an unmanned Ariane 5 model rocket was launched by the European Space Agency.
Onboard was software written to analyze the horizontal velocity of the spacecraft. A conversion between a 64-bit floating point value and a 16-bit signed integer within this software ultimately caused an overflow error just forty seconds after launch, leading to a catastrophic failure of the spacecraft.
That day, $7 billion of development met it's match: a data type conversion.
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