coordinates) The Buran programme (Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also known as the "VKK Space Orbiter programme" (Russian: ВКК...
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Soviet/Russian Buran program. Buran completed one uncrewed spaceflight in 1988, and was destroyed in 2002 due to the collapse of its storage hangar. The Buran-class...
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third Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. Its construction was not complete when the Buran programme was cancelled...
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the designation of the fifth Soviet/Russian Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Buran programme. It was never officially named. 2.03 was a...
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Mil Mi-26 (section Buran programme)
The 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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The Buran programme was an attempt by the Soviet Union to construct an orbital spaceplane to perform similar functions to the Space Shuttle. Similar to...
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designation of the fourth built Soviet/Russian Buran-class orbiter to be produced as part of the Buran programme. Construction of 2.02 is believed to have...
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Baikonur Cosmodrome (section Buran facilities)
305°E / 46.008; 63.305 As part of the Buran programme, several facilities were adapted or newly built for the Buran-class space shuttle orbiters: Site 110...
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The Soviet 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...
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Ptichka (redirect from Ptichka (Buran-class spacecraft))
for all orbiters in the programme), is the second Buran-class orbiter, produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. Although 2K was the closest...
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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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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 for...
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Spaceplane (section Buran)
be launched into space. The Buran-class orbiters used the expendable Energia rocket as a launch vehicle. The Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union...
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Mir (redirect from Mir programme)
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...
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Rimantas Stankevičius (category Buran program)
a Lithuanian test pilot and cosmonaut in the Soviet space shuttle Buran programme. He was killed in a crash of his Su-27 fighter plane during an airshow...
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Zvezda spaceplane, a Soviet spaceplane project; see Buran programme#History of the Buran programme NPP Zvezda, Russian aeronautical and space manufacturer...
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Historical video to celebrate first 100 years of TsAGI TsAGI in the Buran programme TsAGI on Google Maps 55°35′36″N 38°06′24″E / 55.59333°N 38.10667°E...
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Anatoly Levchenko (category Buran program)
Левченко; May 5, 1941 – August 6, 1988) was a Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme. Trained as a test pilot and selected as a cosmonaut on 12 July 1980...
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Igor Volk (category Buran program)
2017) was a Russian test pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme. Volk became a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in 1956. After graduation...
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designed the Energia rocket for the Buran space shuttle program. Since the early beginnings of the Luna programme it designed many space probes, among...
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space plane, the crewed part of the Space Shuttle Buran Shuttle, the vehicle for the Soviet Buran programme Shuttle (film), a 2008 thriller film Shuttle (video...
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proposed in the late 1980s, but never developed past the design stage. Buran programme Scaled Composites Stratolaunch Conroy Virtus "OOS, la bestia de Tupolev...
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Space Shuttle program (redirect from Space shuttle programme)
and between 2003 and 2005 after catastrophic failures. The Soviet shuttle Buran was very similar and was designed to have the same capabilities but made...
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working on Buran. Delays with Buran and increased need for space station crews resulted in his transferring to training for the Interkosmos programme in January...
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History of spaceflight (section Buran)
short visits. The Buran programme (Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also known as the "VKK Space Orbiter programme" (Russian: ВКК...
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ultimately precipitated the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in 1986. Buran programme Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar X-37 Dream Chaser List of launch vehicle designs...
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Su-57 K-36LM: Used in the Tu-160 Blackjack K-36RB: Variant used on Buran programme K-36VM: Automatic ejection system (SKE) used successfully 20/20 times...
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medium-range narrow-body jet airliner. "Buran" was the first spaceplane to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran programme. Tupolev Tu-123 Yastreb was one...
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David C. Jones to hold on the story, but received details on the Buran programme which were published on March 20, 1978. It revealed progressively the...
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air-launched orbiter projects, such as Svityaz and Oril. Air launch to orbit Buran programme State Space Agency of Ukraine § Svityaz project RD-701 - main engine...
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