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The Buran-class orbiters used the expendable Energia rocket, a class of super heavy-lift launch vehicle. Besides describing the first operational Soviet/Russian shuttle orbiter, "Buran" was also the designation for the entire Soviet/Russian spaceplane project and its flight articles, which were known as "Buran-class orbiters".
21 gru 2017 · A Soviet-era Buran shuttle lies abandoned in a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It's been gathering dust here for nearly 30 years.
15 lis 2013 · The Buran launched strapped onto the Energia launch vehicle, the largest among Soviet launch vehicles. It resembled the American shuttle quite closely -- not by coincidence. Through espionage, the Soviets obtained the design specifications of the US shuttle.
21 kwi 2015 · The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time. NASA's space...
1 paź 2024 · Buran, Soviet orbiter similar in design and function to the U.S. space shuttle. Designed by the Energia aerospace bureau, it made a single unmanned, fully automated flight in 1988, only to be grounded shortly thereafter due to cost overruns and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
15 lis 2013 · The launch of Buran (Russian for “snowstorm”) from the same patch of central Asia from which Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin rocketed into space marked a new milestone in the Soviet space program.
15 lis 2020 · The Buran program began as a response to the American Space Shuttle Program and was the largest and most expensive project in the history of Soviet space exploration. The idea of a reusable spacecraft program has its roots in the late 1950's at the beginning of the Space Age but no real efforts were made until the 1970's and 80's.
