Editing Soviet space program (section)

===Polyus satellite===
The [[Polyus (spacecraft)|Polyus satellite]] was a prototype [[space weapon|orbital weapons platform]] designed to destroy [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] satellites with a megawatt [[Carbon dioxide laser|carbon-dioxide laser]].<ref name=starwars>{{cite web| url = http://www.buran.ru/htm/str163.htm| title = Звёздные войны, которых не было |trans-title=Star Wars that didn't happen| author = Konstantin Lantratov}}</ref> Launched mounted upside-down on its [[Energia (rocket)|Energia rocket]], its single flight test was a failure when the [[inertial guidance system]] failed to rotate it 180° and instead rotated a complete 360°.<ref name=grondine>{{cite web |url = http://www.astronautix.com/craft/polyus.htm |title = Polyus |author = Ed Grondine |access-date = 2009-09-15 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100102201428/http://astronautix.com/craft/polyus.htm |archive-date = 2010-01-02 }}</ref>