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by Ndymium 2171 days ago
I can't help but think of Ariane V and its famous launch failure due to a programming error. I hope Ariane RISC-V fares better. ;) (Ok, the rocket platform has been reliable since 2003, but that ruins the joke.)
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Was going to say the same. I learnt of the Ariane 5 explosion in a class on critical-systems software development. The out-of-range error that cost $0.5bn.

A summary of the failure: https://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html

It wasn't even the out-of-range value that caused the failure--that would have been fine. The failure was caused by trapping the error, and dumping debug data onto the realtime control bus.
Getting two explosions in the first 20 launches is par for the course in making a new rocket. :)