Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle that is part of the Ariane rocket family, an expendable launch system designed by the French government space agency Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES).

1. ARIANE 5

2. Contents
• Introduction to system
• Who owns (Country/Organization etc)
• When it was developed
• What is the purpose?
• Explain disaster or failure
• Cost of failure

3. Introduction to System
A European rocket designed to launch
commercial payloads into earth orbit.
Ariane 5 can carry a heavier payload
than arian 4.
Now the standard launch vehicle for the
European space agency.

4. Who owns???
Ariane 5 rockets are manufactured under
the authority of the European Space
Agency (20 ESA member states) and the
French space agency Centre National
d'Etudes Spatiales.

5. What is the purpose?
It is used to deliver payloads into
geostationary transfer orbit (GTO)
or low Earth orbit (LEO).

6. When it was developed
June 4th 1996
Total failure of the Ariane 5
Launcher on its maiden flight

7. Explain disaster or failure
Incorrect control signals were sent to the
engines and these swiveled so that
unsustainable stresses were imposed on the
rocket.
The vehicle started to break up because of the
stresses imposed and self-destructed.

9. Cost of failure
The disastrous launch cost approximately
$370m, led to a public inquiry, and through
the destruction of the rocket’s payload,
delayed scientific research into workings of
the Earth’s magnetosphere for almost 4
years.
The Ariane 5 launch is widely acknowledged
as one of the most expensive software
failures in history.

10. Group members
S.Mithuna - TG/2017/239
S.Tharmiya - TG/2017/260
M.M.F Minha - TG/2017/253
N.F Nasrin - TG/2017/273