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    The Buran spacecraft was made to be launched on the Soviet Union's super-heavy lift vehicle, Energia. The Buran program ended in 1993. The Buran orbiter...
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    Soviet reusable spacecraft to be launched into space. The Buran-class orbiters used the expendable Energia rocket as a launch vehicle. The Buran programme was...
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    Energia of the Soviet Union as part of the Buran program for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft. Control system main developer enterprise...
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    in November 2024. Spaceflight portal Buran (spacecraft) – Buran Spacecraft OK-1.01 Buran program OK-GLI – Buran Analog BST-02 test vehicle Mikoyan-Gurevich...
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  • Look up Buran or buran in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Buran may refer to: Buran, Ardabil, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran Buran, Mazandaran, a...
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  • Soviet orbital spaceplane Spaceplane Spacecraft "Buran Built models OK-2.03". www.buran-energia.com. "Space Buran 2.03". www.k26.com. Archived from the...
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    enlarged derivative of the Antonov An-124 airlifter for transporting Buran spacecraft. On 21 December 1988, the An-225 performed its maiden flight; only...
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    prototype and a number of operational spacecraft were planned for the Buran programme, which were known as "Buran-class orbiters". The aerodynamic testbed...
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    second Buran-class orbiter, produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. Although 2K was the closest to being completed of any of the Buran-class...
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    Soyuz-TMA Soyuz TMA-M Soyuz-V Military Soyuz Buran programme Buran (spacecraft) Kliper LK (spacecraft) Orel (spacecraft) Salyut programme Salyut 1 Salyut 2 Cosmos...
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    OK-GLI (category Buran-class orbiters)
    atmospheric test vehicle ("Buran aerodynamic analogue") of the orbital Buran spacecraft. It was constructed for the Buran programme in 1984, and was used...
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  • Soviet/Russian Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Buran programme. Construction of 2.02 is believed to have begun in 1988. The spacecraft belongs...
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    Soviet Union developed and used the Antonov An-225 Mriya to ferry the Buran spacecraft. Some large long-range aircraft have been modified as motherships in...
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    the Buran spaceplane of the Soviet Union, the latter of which only ever had one uncrewed test flight, all of the recoverable crewed orbital spacecraft were...
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    developers of the Buran space vehicle programme considered using Mi-26 helicopters to "bundle" lift components for the Buran spacecraft, but test flights...
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    Spaceplane (category Spacecraft)
    Soviet reusable spacecraft to be launched into space. The Buran-class orbiters used the expendable Energia rocket as a launch vehicle. The Buran programme was...
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    related to Soyuz program. Shenzhou, a Chinese spacecraft influenced by Soyuz Space Shuttle Buran (spacecraft) List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents...
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    space programme named a class of spacecraft after the buran (see Buran programme). Dust storm N'aschi Shamal (wind) Buran on Winds of the World v t e v t...
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    was later used by the Soviet space program to train pilots of the Buran spacecraft, and by NASA for supersonic research until 1999. The Tu-144 made its...
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  • The Polyus spacecraft (Russian: Полюс, pole), also known as Polus, Skif-DM, GRAU index 17F19DM, was a prototype Soviet orbital weapons platform designed...
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  • long runway and large tarmac. Long runway was designated as a "eastern alternate airport" for landing the Buran spacecraft. RussianAirFields.com v t e...
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    Mir (category Crewed spacecraft)
    halted while all resources were being put into the Buran programme in order to prepare the Buran spacecraft for flight testing. Funding resumed in early 1984...
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    Docking and berthing of spacecraft is the joining of two space vehicles. This connection can be temporary, or partially permanent such as for space station...
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    and Buran spacecraft, development of automated crew training systems. He has also participated in launch preparation of the Soyuz-TM, Buran spacecraft and...
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    Reusable launch vehicle (category Spacecraft propulsion)
    engines and fuel tank of its orbiter. The Buran spaceplane and Starship spacecraft are two other reusable spacecraft that were designed to be able to act as...
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    even if they were designed for crewed flight, such as Buran, or crewed flights by spacecraft below 80 km. There is some debate concerning the height...
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    Associate Administrator for the Office of Space Flight, George Abbey The Buran Spacecraft designed as an equivalent to the US Space Shuttle. The Energia Rocket...
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    crewed and uncrewed spacecraft. It has supported several generations of Russian spacecraft: Soyuz, Proton, Tsyklon, Dnepr, Zenit and Buran. Downrange from...
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    which is now accessible to visitors. In April 2008, a Soviet/Russian Buran spacecraft, OK-GLI, was transported to the Technik Museum and is now another walk-in...
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    Soyuz 7 (category Spacecraft launched in 1969)
    sign of the spacecraft was Buran, meaning blizzard, which years later was re-used as the name of the entirely different spaceplane Buran. This word is...
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