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| Software Failure | | Railroad Y2K | | In January of 2001 newspapers reported that a major European railroad was hit by the after-effects of the Y2K bug. The company found that many of their newer trains would not run due to their inability to recognize the date 31/12/2000. The trains were started by altering the control system's date settings. | | Military satellite | | In April of 1999, a software bug caused the failure of a $1.2 billion military satellite launch, the costliest unmanned accident in the history of Cape Canaveral launches. The failure was the latest in a string of launch failures, triggering a complete military and industry review of U.S. space launch programs, including software integration and testing processes. Congressional oversight hearings were requested |
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