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Re:Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your S... by bigbaguette on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:20PM (#20931428)
105 launches, 2 failures, 3 partial failures. That's a 95,2% success rate.
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Re:Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your S... by Rexxar on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:54PM (#20932895)
I nitpick a little but failures were at launch 1 and 14. Partial Failures at launch 2, 10 and 97 so the current effective success rate is much higher than 95,2%.

(4 failures in the 14 first launches, but only one partial failure in 91 launches since).

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Re:Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your S... by kragen on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @01:33AM (#20936859)
That's a normal failure rate for chemical rockets. The notable thing was that the first failure was due to software.
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Re:Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your S... by sixplusone on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:36PM (#20932618)
How many dollars did the failures cost?
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Re:Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your S... by pizzapill on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @03:53AM (#20937563)
Ca. 370 Mio. USD
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