Integration Services Trade electronically with customers and suppliers. Apps Smart tools for total integration. Learn More. Company Careers Support. Drive efficiency and profitability across your entire business enterprise. Arian 5 was the fifth in the Ariane series of European civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use and was to be used for launching satellites into space. The name comes from the French spelling of the mythological character Ariadne.
On a sunny day in Kourou, French Guiana on June 4, , the unmanned Ariane 5 exploded only about 40 seconds after its launch. The floating point number which was converted had a value greater than what could be represented by a bit signed integer.
This software bug ended up causing more human loss than can be counted in money. This bug caused losses as well as gave rise to new breed of startups. In the late 90s, Y2K bug was perhaps the most talked about bug even as the world waited for airplanes to collide, ships to veer off course, stock markets to collapse as was forecasted by many tech experts.
The bug was a simple mistake in the time management system of computers which used only two digits to represent the year. So would be represented as 70 and would be represented as This method worked fine till 31 Dec, but failed to take into consideration this millennium.
Due to this bug, almost all computers which ran in those days would have read 1 January many 1 Jan The collapse never happened but it took a while for software developers to fix this bug.
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Deadly radiation therapy The Therac medical radiation therapy device was involved in several cases where massive overdoses of radiation were administered to patients in , a side effect of the buggy software powering the device. Rocket launch errors In , a European Ariane 5 rocket was set to deliver a payload of satellites into Earth orbit, but problems with the software caused the launch rocket to veer off its path a mere 37 seconds after launch.
Flight crashes In in Scotland, a Chinook helicopter crashed and killed all 29 passengers. An explosion seen from space In another Cold War escapade, the CIA allegedly managed to slip the Russians a faulty control software to be used for a major gas pipeline the KGB was to steal the software from a Canadian company, but the CIA had been tipped off.
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