The Soviet space program used completely different controls and instruments from American spacecraft. One of the most interesting navigati...

“Different Globus units needed to be built for different orbits. Moreover, this design only handles circular orbits, making it useless during orbit changes such as rendezvous and docking. These were such significant limitations that some cosmonauts wanted the Globus removed from the control panel, but it remained until it was replaced by a computer display in Soyuz-TMA (2002).”

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    I suspect that’s a reflection of the financial situation of the Soviet space program in the 1970s and especially the 1980s, and then the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

    Probably something like that, but you have to keep in mind it was a weird economy, so the concept of a budget doesn’t neatly translate.