Computers of the Russian segment of the ISS

"I wonder what is there for" Russian computers "? What are they? What software, iron? It’s a pity, but we’ll probably never know ... ”- asks our habro- colleague putin in the commentary on the topic about the troubleshooting process on the ISS .



The device of the Russian segment of the International Space Station and the complex history of their creation in its most interesting article on the Space World website are told by Yuri Alexandrovich Tyapchenko (pictured), who led the creation of computer systems for the Soyuz-TMA spacecraft and the International Space Station, and This participated in the creation of information display systems for all domestic spacecraft.



I cannot help but cite only one quote here: “In general, the history of the creation of the SOI PKA Soyuz-TMA and the ISS deserves a separate description, as it is dramatic and, at the same time, according to the author, typical of the transition from socialism to capitalism . It is typical of the fact that it involves leaders who, on the one hand, realized that the process of transition to new forms of activity is inevitable, and on the other, cannot fit into this process, cannot accept the fact that incompetence in science and technology, inability to see their place in the new conditions and other things cannot be compensated for by the powers vested in them before the Soviet and party authorities ... It can be said that, on the basis of the experience gained, the well-known “Peter principles” can and should be refined and supplemented. ”

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So, read the original Twenty Pages of Labor History of Soviet and Russian Engineers and Designers - from the Soyuz-7K, Soyuz-A8 spacecraft (the Soyuz-Appolon program) and the Salyut station to Soyuz-TMA and ISS. Detailed specifications and illustrations.



PS In fact, comrade Putin should have been given all the details back in 2001, when he awarded participants of the creation and launch of the Zvezda service module under the program of the International Space Station with state awards of the Russian Federation .