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25th anniversary of the Energia?s flight
Today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first Energia‘s flight on May 15, 1987. It is at 21h30 (Moscow time) that the rocket was launched for the first time with the Polious space combat station as a payload. The launch went fine, despite a trouble during take off, but a malfunction in the orientation [...]
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Death of test pilot Pyotr Ostapenko
It is with a simple press release that the Russian press agency (RIA Novosti) announced the death of the test pilot Pyotr Ostapenko on April 8, 2012, at the age of 83. Pyotr Ostapenko worked all his career (1958-1981) for the design bureau MiG as a test pilot. He flew more than 5000 hours, did [...]
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Snowboard show at the Gorky park
Last week in Moscow, at the Gorky park, was a snowboard contest the Adrenalin Games 2012. Some installations (stairs and quarters) were made for the competitor in front of the Buran OK-TVA whereas a giant screen was settled behind her. During the show animations were displayed on the shuttle and the screen giving a striking effect. [...]
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Pictures of Energia M
Here is some pictures taken in October 2010 of the Energia M mock-up in the vertical vibration test building in Baikonur. Other pictures are here in the gallery.
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Happy birthday Buran-Energia.com !
Today buran-energia.com has 5 years. It has been 5 years since I have started this project to make a website in french/english about the Buran space shuttle, and with the researchs I did I discovered other Soviets space projects (such as Spiral and BOR, …) which gave me the the idea to speak about them, [...]
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Chaplygin institut
The Siberian scientific aviation institute named after S.A. Chaplygin is located at Novosibirsk and is the biggest aviation research center of the East Russia. This institute is equipped with apparels to heat up and cool down materials, this is why it seems that they worked on the Buran’s heat shield. Here is two pictures of [...]
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Pictures of Ptichka in the MZK
Few weeks ago some people got inside the Buran’s assembly building at Baikonur, the MZK. They found two shuttles, the test shuttle OK-MT and the second shuttle of first generation OK-1.02 named Ptichka (little bird). This shuttle was finished at 95% when the program was stopped and had some modifications in comparison of the model [...]
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OK-MT in its sarcophagus
Here are some pictures of the shuttle OK-MT taken at the beginning of August in the MZK building in Baikonur. This building has been disused since the end of the program (beginning of the 90′s) this is easily noticeable due to the pile of dust on the orbiter.
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End of restauration ?
The OK-2.01 shuttle was moved few weeks ago from its storage area (Tushino banks) to the Zhukovsky airport to be restored. This is the first picture of the restoration shoot by Ivan Kirilov, where we can see the work achieved. Clearly the « restoration » had to be done for the MAKS-2011, because the heat shield was [...]
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Move of OK-2.01 for the MAKS 2013
The Buran shuttle OK-2.01 was moved yesterday (Wednesday 22) for the MAKS 2013. It’s in the Tushino region, East of Moscow, that the shuttle has been lying for years, this Buran shuttle of second generation wasn’t finished when the program was stopped in the beginning of the 90′s. Since then Molniya institute has been stocked [...]
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