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According to the article the code was designed to run on the previous iteration of the rocket, the Ariane 4, who's first flight was on 15 June 1988. Conceivable
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 4y ago
According to the article the code was designed to run on the previous iteration of the rocket, the Ariane 4, who's first flight was on 15 June 1988. Conceivable that code was written in the mid-1980's, better 'tooling' might not have been an option.
- naasking 4y agoNot at the time, but those features are available now, and that still isn't the lesson commonly taken from these disasters, unfortunately.