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Updated Soyuz Control panel No snickering please, as the spacecraft itself does not run Windows, this simulator does. It requires more complex software that simulates not only the spacecraft functions, but the spacecraft's environment as well.
Before the last
update, this is how the Soyuz control panel looked. The navigation computer
in the upper right corner is a mechanical analog device where one sets the
orbital parameters (as given by ground control) and then the clockwork turns
the earth in the proper fashion. If you watch old WW2 submarine movies
(Run
Silent, Run Deep (1958) you can see similar analog computers directing torpedo
fire. The small CRT in the middle is a TV screen that shows some re-entry
parameters in the style of an old Atari game, and it can also show video of
the rendezvous. The new panel simulates the old one using an Intel 386 chip
– selected for its reliability and resistance to radiation in the space
environment. Source:
charlesinspace.com |
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 Soyuz at Star City October 2000 |
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"Maybe
computer science will help decode DNA, and not just by supplying tools. Disassembling DNA could be a hacker’s ultimate dream." ~ Charles Simonyi 1986 |
This page was updated
08/12/13
