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You even missed one. The Russian supply ship also caused a second uncontrolled spin of the ISS after being berthed for a while. https://futurism.com/the-byte/r
by ncallaway 5y ago
You even missed one. The Russian supply ship also caused a second uncontrolled spin of the ISS after being berthed for a while.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/russia-spun-space-station-again https://futurism.com/the-byte/russia-spun-space-station-agai...
Something is definitely off nominal in the Russian space agency.
- vbezhenar 5y agoRussian space competency was based on USSR. As time goes on, old bisons are passing out and young competent people are not going to work for a fraction of PHP developer salary. Space is not a joke, I guess. That's not a malicious intent, that's incompetency. Not like it matters in the end.
- PeterisP 5y agoTo make it more specific for westerners, there was some discussion of published industry salary data in 2019, and the average salary for engineers working in the Russian space manufacturing companies was something like 60000 RUB/month (depending on the region - those in Moscow had a higher coefficient, but the regional manufacturing cities had lower) which comes out to approximately 10k USD / year.