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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #960 on: 09/24/2015 09:01 pm »
15 years ago, taken during the Cluster 2 launch campaign, a peek inside MIK112 before the roof collapsed.
« Last Edit: 09/24/2015 09:02 pm by Jester »

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #961 on: 10/28/2015 09:11 am »
My pictures of a BOR-4 lost in a Russian church, near Moscow :

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/vaisseaux/bor/visite/zhoukovski/zhoukovski.html
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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #962 on: 11/15/2015 06:51 pm »
27 years ago today...

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #963 on: 08/15/2016 12:42 am »
What is to be done with Ptichka and OK-M in the Baikanour hanger?   Heck, I wish NASA would get Buran's sister and put her next to Atlantis. :) A nice compare and contrast of the shuttles of two nations side by side.




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« Reply #964 on: 08/15/2016 11:52 am »
What is to be done with Ptichka and OK-M in the Baikanour hanger?   Heck, I wish NASA would get Buran's sister and put her next to Atlantis. :) A nice compare and contrast of the shuttles of two nations side by side.
IMHO, that would only happen if one of our shuttles went there, even though the comparison is not entirely apples to apples.
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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #965 on: 08/15/2016 05:21 pm »
There is a precedent: OK-GLI (the aerodynamic test bed with jet engines) went to the Technikmuseum in Speyer, DE.

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #966 on: 10/07/2016 09:12 pm »
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/russische-space-wracks-die-gruft-des-weltraumzeitalters-fotostrecke-141484.html

New pictures of the two Buran vehicles inside the Assembly and Fueling Building (MZK) at Baikonur (the second flight vehicle and the OK-MT test vehicle). Also a picture of the Energiya-M mock-up inside the Dynamic Test Stand.

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #967 on: 11/15/2016 11:44 am »
And to mark the 25th anniversary, here's what is surprisingly our first Buran article!

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/11/remembering-buran-shuttles-estranged-soviet-cousin/

Many thanks to Nickolai for his help with the article!

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #968 on: 02/01/2017 02:31 am »
First Soviet Space Shuttle (PROTOTYPE) story, start in 1957

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Published on Jan 31, 2017
(RUSSIAN AUDIO) TV Roscosmos, January 31, 2017: In February 1957, 60 years ago, aircraft Tsybin Paul, who led OKB-256, was given the task to develop a planning spacecraft "PCA". It outputs to a height of 300 kilometers of the carrier rocket "Vostok". After orbital flight "PAC" had to return to Earth, planning in the dense layers of the atmosphere. During the descent, in the zone of intense thermal heating "RCA" would use the lift force of the original shape of the hull. This project Sergey Korolev gave an informal name of - "Lapotok".



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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #969 on: 03/06/2017 10:27 pm »
This was posted today in the Russian section, but belongs in this thread. A video by two Russians who managed to sneak inside the abandoned MZK building at Baikonur that houses two Buran vehicles as well as the SDI test stand that houses a mock-up of the Energia-M launch vehicle.



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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #970 on: 03/07/2017 08:58 am »
That's quite a stunning video. Love the part when they get inside the Buran.
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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #971 on: 03/07/2017 04:55 pm »
First Soviet Space Shuttle (PROTOTYPE) story, start in 1957

Dan Beaumont Space Museum

Published on Jan 31, 2017
(RUSSIAN AUDIO) TV Roscosmos, January 31, 2017: In February 1957, 60 years ago, aircraft Tsybin Paul, who led OKB-256, was given the task to develop a planning spacecraft "PCA". It outputs to a height of 300 kilometers of the carrier rocket "Vostok". After orbital flight "PAC" had to return to Earth, planning in the dense layers of the atmosphere. During the descent, in the zone of intense thermal heating "RCA" would use the lift force of the original shape of the hull. This project Sergey Korolev gave an informal name of - "Lapotok".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsV_q8-hAyM?t=001



Hmmmm.... "Lapotok" of Tsybin looked approximately so:

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #972 on: 05/26/2017 10:30 pm »
Side-by-side comparison of Discovery OV-103 and the Buran aerodynamic testbed OK-GLI (based on images I took in 2013). I tried to show both at the same perspective.

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #973 on: 05/27/2017 03:35 am »
Former trainee for the Buran programme, cosmonaut Anatoli Artsebarsky will be talking about his Buran experiences at the British Interplanetary Society's Sino-Russian Technical Forum on June 3-4.

http://www.bis-space.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Sino-Russian-Technical-Forum-Programme.pdf
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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #974 on: 06/13/2017 11:31 am »
http://tass.ru/kosmos/4332198

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin paid a visit today to the MZK building at Baikonur which houses two Buran orbiters (one flight model, one test model). He says on Facebook the Buran launch complex will be turned into a space museum. No further details given. This is the picture he posted of today's visit to the MZK building.

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #975 on: 06/16/2017 10:50 pm »
http://tass.ru/kosmos/4342852

A full-scale test model of Buran (vehicle N° 003) now located on the premises of RKK Energia near Moscow will be  transported to Sochi on the Black Sea, where it will serve as an educational tool for children at the Sirius Education Center, which was set up several years ago on Putin's initiative using Olympic infrastructure. For many years the vehicle resided in a hangar at RKK Energia, but in 2012 it was parked outside to make room for other hardware. Also removed from the hangar was a full-scale model of the canceled Kliper spacecraft, which will also be placed at the Sirius Education Centre and has reportedly already been transported to Sochi. The Buran test model is expected to arrive in Sochi by mid-July and will be refurbished at RKK Energia's own expense.

Here's a photo of Buran N° 003 and Kliper when they were still standing side by side inside the hangar at RKK Energia.

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #976 on: 06/17/2017 08:39 am »
Nice to see Russia preserving both spaceship mockups.
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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #977 on: 06/17/2017 07:06 pm »
http://tass.ru/kosmos/4342852

A full-scale test model of Buran (vehicle N° 003) now located on the premises of RKK Energia near Moscow will be  transported to Sochi on the Black Sea
Just to keep things clear, could you give us the OK number/version? Thanks!

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #978 on: 06/17/2017 10:54 pm »
http://tass.ru/kosmos/4342852

A full-scale test model of Buran (vehicle N° 003) now located on the premises of RKK Energia near Moscow will be  transported to Sochi on the Black Sea
Just to keep things clear, could you give us the OK number/version? Thanks!

It's OK-KS (KS standing for "kompleksnyy stend"). Delivered to NPO Energia in 1983. It was mainly used for electric and software tests. OK-KS also served a test bed to troubleshoot problems that cropped up during the construction of the first flight vehicle. Various software programs for the maiden flight of Buran were tested on OK-KS.

Here are more pictures of OK-KS when it was still inside the hangar at RKK Energia as well as a few pictures of the moment it was wheeled out of the hangar on 15 October 2012.

http://www.buran.ru/htm/foto32.htm

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Re: The Buran Thread
« Reply #979 on: 06/18/2017 05:44 am »
I've been meaning to ask...

I don't recall ever seeing any pictures of article 8M, the Crew Trainer that was supposedly at the GCTC.  What finally happened to it?

While I'm at it, what is the current status of 5M & 6M?
« Last Edit: 06/18/2017 12:45 pm by GClark »

 

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