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		orbital-decay on Jan 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft Less complicated isn't always good. There was no problem driving the clock display with the onboard Argon-16 of course, but the clock was decoupled into a separate device to not have a single point of failure, and also to replace the old onboard chronometer which was even more complex and failure-prone.

m0zg on Jan 18, 2020 [–]

That's not what I meant. I meant using more specialized ICs or a separate microprocessor. It's not like cost was much of a concern there.

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