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 Failure...
Group members are…
Sujan M(TG/2017/248)
Rifnas I(TG/2017/267)
Zulmi Z(TG/2017/261)

2. Introduction
June 4th 1996
Total failure of the Ariane 5
Lunacher on its maiden flight.
launched by the European Space Agency
development costing $7 billion.
It turned out that the cause of the failure
was a software error in the inertial
reference system.

4. Software Error...

5. Owner of ariane 5.
● Airbus defence and Space is the Prime contractor
for the vehicles a multi-country consortium of
other European Contractor is the owners of
Ariane 5 .
● Ariane 5 is operated and marketed by
Arianespace as part of the Ariene programme. The
rocket are launched by Arianespace from the
Guiana space Center in French Guiana.

6. MAIN CAUSE OF THE FAILURE
● The flight exploded after 40 seconds.
● The rocket was made after the development of
a decade.
● A board investigated that it happened due to
the software error in the inertial reference
system.
● Specifically the 64 bit floating point number
relating to the horizontal velocity was
converted to the 16 bit signed integer.

7. Development and Cost
The rocket was on its first voyage, after a decade
of development costing $7 billion. The destroyed
rocket and its cargo were valued at $500 million.
On June 4,1996 an unnamed Ariane 5 rocket
launched by the European Space Agency
exploded just 40 seconds after its lift-off from
Kourou,French Guiana.