Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer
One of the most interesting navigation instruments onboard Soyuz spacecraft was the Globus INK,1 which used a rotating globe
to indicate the spacecraft's position above the Earth.
This electromechanical analog computer used an elaborate system of gears, cams, and differentials
to compute the spacecraft's position.
The globe rotates in two dimensions: it spins end-over-end to indicate the spacecraft's orbit, while
the globe's hemispheres rotate according to the Earth's daily rotation around its a...
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