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Looking inside a flown Soyuz space clock
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WastelandTek:
episode 2 dropped a couple days ago

darrellg:
Ken did a write-up too. It's at https://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html.
free_electron:

--- Quote from: Bud on December 08, 2019, 02:20:41 am ---This gear would have been a nice complimentary item to the Apollo-Soyuz model at the Smithsonian. Too bad if it ends up in a bin after this guy will milk it for a video.

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Knowing Marc , it will get a nice place in his house , next to the IBM360 control panel .
WastelandTek:
They got it powered up

floobydust:
I'm amazed it survived all the rough handling and mis-wiring, including non-ESD latex gloves that made me cringe. But Soyuz strong comrade. Glad it turned out OK.
So... the aux timer is likely for burn time?

Amazing that this 45 year old tech beats Boeing's Starliner solution. The $410M Boeing allocated to do a re-launch could include making another one of these...
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