57-723: [REDACTED] Look up Buran or buran in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Buran may refer to: Places [ edit ] Buran, Ardabil , a village in Ardabil Province, Iran Buran, Mazandaran , a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran Buran, Ukraine , an urban-type settlement in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, also known as Enhelsove Other uses [ edit ] Buran programme ,
114-576: A 34-meter-long lifting body spaceplane launched on top of a stack of kerosene-fueled strap on boosters; and the OS-120 ( Russian : ОС-120, «Орбитальный Самолет» , romanized : Orbital'niy Samolet , lit. 'Orbital Spaceplane–120 tons'), a close copy of the US Space Shuttle based on US Space Shuttle documentation and designs obtained through the VPK and KGB. The OS-120
171-695: A counterpart to the Pentagon 's initially projected missions for the Shuttle. Even though the Molniya Scientific Production Association proposed its Spiral programme design (halted 13 years earlier), it was rejected as being altogether dissimilar from the American shuttle design. The construction of the shuttles began in 1980, and by 1984 the first full-scale Buran was rolled out. The first suborbital test flight of
228-524: A new family of heavy-lift rockets called RLA ( Russian : РЛА, «Ракетные Летательные Аппараты» , romanized : Raketnyye Letatel'niye Apparaty , lit. 'Rocket Flying Apparatus'). The RLA concept included the use of kerosene and liquid hydrogen as fuel, and liquid oxygen as oxidizer (both new technologies in the Soviet space programme), with the shuttle orbiter being one possible payload. While NPO Molniya conducted development under
285-408: A perceived military threat posed by the U.S. Space Shuttle. In their opinion, the Shuttle's 30-ton payload-to-orbit capacity and, more significantly, its 15-ton payload return capacity, were a clear indication that one of its main objectives would be to place massive experimental laser weapons into orbit that could destroy enemy missiles from a distance of several thousands of kilometres. Their reasoning
342-399: A scale-model ( BOR-5 ) took place as early as July 1983. As the project progressed, five additional scale-model flights were performed. A test vehicle was constructed with four jet engines mounted at the rear; this vehicle is usually referred to as OK-GLI , or as the "Buran aerodynamic analogue". The jets were used to take off from a normal landing strip, and once it reached a designated point,
399-585: A town in the northern Sanaag region of Somalia Buranji , Indian historical chronicles Tripura Buranji Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Buran . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buran&oldid=1205558237 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
456-585: A town in the northern Sanaag region of Somalia Buranji , Indian historical chronicles Tripura Buranji Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Buran . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buran&oldid=1205558237 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
513-609: A week later on Soyuz TM-3 . His mission is sometimes called Mir LII-1 , after the Gromov Flight Research Institute shorthand. When Levchenko died the following year, it left the back-up crew of the first Buran mission again without spaceflight experience. A Soyuz spaceflight for another potential back-up commander was sought by the Gromov Flight Research Institute, but never occurred. Maintenance, launches and landings of
570-460: A week. Levchenko died of a brain tumour the year after his orbital flight, Bachurin left the cosmonaut corps because of medical reasons, Shchukin was assigned to the back-up crew of Soyuz TM-4 and later died in a plane crash, Stankevičius was also killed in a plane crash, while Borodai and Zabolotsky remained unassigned to a Soyuz flight until the Buran programme ended. Igor Volk was planned to be
627-578: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Buran [REDACTED] Look up Buran or buran in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Buran may refer to: Places [ edit ] Buran, Ardabil , a village in Ardabil Province, Iran Buran, Mazandaran , a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran Buran, Ukraine , an urban-type settlement in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, also known as Enhelsove Other uses [ edit ] Buran programme ,
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#1732765597102684-402: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Buran programme Download coordinates as: The Buran programme ( Russian : Буран , IPA: [bʊˈran] , "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also known as the " VKK Space Orbiter programme " ( Russian : ВКК «Воздушно-Космический Корабль» , lit. 'Air and Space Ship'),
741-659: Is thought to have contributed to the collapse, together with heavy rainfall in the days preceding the collapse. Five orbiters were planned to be built (designated 1K-5K, K stands for Корабль , 'craft, flying article'), with hull numbering starting with 1 or 2 (e.g. 1.01), two originally ordered in 1970s and three ("second series") additionally ordered in 1983. For research and testing purposes, several test articles were produced, designated 1M-8M (M stands for Макет , 'mock-up'), with hull numbering starting with 0 (e.g. 0.02). The programme prefix OK stands for Орбитальный Корабль , 'Orbital Vehicle' and carries
798-577: The British Interplanetary Society magazine Spaceflight , to ask why a test pilot was occupying a Soyuz seat usually reserved for researchers or foreign cosmonauts. Anatoli Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first crewed Buran flight, and in March 1987 he began extensive training for his Soyuz spaceflight. In December 1987, he occupied the third seat aboard Soyuz TM-4 to Mir, and returned to Earth about
855-602: The GRAU index number 11F35. By 1991 two operational vehicles were delivered to Baikonur, three others were under construction at the Tushino Machine-Building Plant (TMZ) near Moscow. Most of the geo-locations below show the orbiter bodies on the ground; in some cases Google Earth 's History facility is required to see the orbiter within the dates specified. Ptichka 1.02 Baikal 2.01 Over time, several scientists looked into trying to revive
912-725: The Shuttle–Mir missions. The cost of a Buran launch carrying a 20-ton payload was estimated at 270 million roubles, vs 5.5 million roubles on the Proton rocket. On 12 May 2002, a hangar roof at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan collapsed because of a structural failure due to poor maintenance. The collapse killed eight workers and destroyed one of the Buran-class orbiters ( Buran , orbiter 1K ), which flew
969-572: The Soviet Union . In 2010 the director of Moscow's Central Machine Building Institute said the Buran programme would be reviewed in the hope of restarting a similar crewed spacecraft design, with rocket test launches as soon as 2015. Russia also continues work on the PPTS but has abandoned the Kliper program, due to differences in vision with its European partners. Due to the 2011 retirement of
1026-577: The American Space Shuttle and the need for STS-type craft in the meantime to complete the International Space Station, some American and Russian scientists had been mulling over plans to possibly revive the already-existing Buran shuttles in the Buran programme rather than spend money on an entirely new craft and wait for it to be fully developed but the plans did not come to fruition. On the 25th anniversary of
1083-457: The Buran developers estimated that the software development would require several thousand programmers if done with their existing methodology (in assembly language), and they appealed to Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics for assistance. It was decided to develop a new high-level "problem-oriented" programming language. Researchers at Keldysh developed two languages: PROL2 (used for real-time programming of onboard systems) and DIPOL (used for
1140-757: The Buran flight in November 2013, Oleg Ostapenko , the new head of Roscosmos , the Russian Federal Space Agency, proposed that a new heavy-lift launch vehicle be built for the Russian space programme. The rocket would be intended to place a payload of 100 tonnes (220,000 lb) in a baseline low Earth orbit and is projected to be based on the Angara launch vehicle technology. Energia ( Russian : Энергия , romanized : Energiya , lit. 'Energy'; GRAU 11K25)
1197-540: The Buran programme, especially after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster . The 2003 grounding of the U.S. Space Shuttles caused many to wonder whether the Energia launcher or Buran shuttle could be brought back into service. By then, however, all of the equipment for both (including the vehicles themselves) had fallen into disrepair or been repurposed after falling into disuse with the collapse of
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#17327655971021254-474: The Buran-class orbiters were to take place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR . Several facilities at Baikonur were adapted or newly built for these purposes: An aerodynamic testbed, OK-GLI , was constructed in 1984 to test the in-flight properties of the Buran design. Unlike the American prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise , OK-GLI had four AL-31 turbofan engines fitted, meaning it
1311-474: The OK-92 ( Russian : ОК-92, «Орбитальный Корабль» , romanized : Orbital'niy Korabl' , lit. 'Orbital Ship–92 tons'), a delta-winged orbiter equipped with two Soloviev D-30 turbofan jet engines for autonomous atmospheric flight, launched to space from a rocket stack made of a core stage with three cryogenic engines, and four kerosene-fueled boosters, each with four engines. By 1978,
1368-511: The OK-92 design was further refined, with its final configuration completed in June 1979. Soviet engineers were initially reluctant to implement a spacecraft design with so many similarities to the US Space Shuttle. Although it has been commented that wind tunnel testing showed that NASA's design was already ideal, the shape requirements were mandated by its potential military capabilities to transport large payloads to low Earth orbit, themselves
1425-512: The Soviet space shuttle project, counterpart of the U.S. space shuttle Buran (spacecraft) , a Soviet shuttle launched in 1988. Buran (wind) , a wind that blows across eastern Asia An alternate spelling of Boran , queen of Iran from 629 to 632 Buran bint al-Hasan ibn Sahl , consort of Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun RSS-40 Buran , a Soviet cruise missile Buran eavesdropping device See also [ edit ] Burang (disambiguation) Burren (disambiguation) Buraan ,
1482-512: The Soviet space shuttle project, counterpart of the U.S. space shuttle Buran (spacecraft) , a Soviet shuttle launched in 1988. Buran (wind) , a wind that blows across eastern Asia An alternate spelling of Boran , queen of Iran from 629 to 632 Buran bint al-Hasan ibn Sahl , consort of Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun RSS-40 Buran , a Soviet cruise missile Buran eavesdropping device See also [ edit ] Burang (disambiguation) Burren (disambiguation) Buraan ,
1539-558: The Space Shuttle's OMS pods . Unlike the Space Shuttle whose first orbital spaceflight was accomplished in April 1981, Buran, whose first and only spaceflight occurred in November 1988, had a capability of flying uncrewed missions, as well as performing fully automated landings. The project was the largest and the most expensive in the history of Soviet space exploration . The Soviet reusable spacecraft programme has its roots in
1596-509: The U.S. Space Shuttle program, including resupply of the Mir space station, which was launched in 1986 and remained in service until 2001. When Mir was finally visited by a spaceplane, the visitor was a Space Shuttle orbiter , not a Buran-class orbiter. The Buran SO, a docking module that was to be used for rendezvous with the Mir space station, was refitted for use with the U.S. Space Shuttles during
1653-567: The academic Boris Chertok , recounts how the programme came into being. According to Chertok, after the U.S. developed its Space Shuttle program, the Soviet military became suspicious that it could be used for military purposes, due to its enormous payload, several times that of previous U.S. launch vehicles. Officially, the Buran orbital vehicle was designed for the delivery to orbit and return to Earth of spacecraft, cosmonauts, and supplies. Both Chertok and Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (General Designer and General Director of NPO Molniya ) suggest that from
1710-477: The acquisition of data was made much easier as the U.S. shuttle development was unclassified. By 1975, NPO Energiya had come up with two competing designs for the orbiter vehicle: the MTKVP ( Russian : МТКВП, «Многоразовый Транспортный Корабль Вертикальной Посадки» , romanized : Mnogorazoviy Transportniy Korabl' Vertikal'noy Posadki , lit. 'Reusable Vertical Landing Transport Ship'),
1767-507: The beginning, the programme was military in nature; however, the exact military capabilities, or intended capabilities, of the Buran programme remain classified. Like its American counterpart, the Buran orbital vehicle, when in transit from its landing sites back to the launch complex, was transported on the back of a large jet aeroplane – the Antonov An-225 Mriya transport aircraft, which was designed in part for this task and
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1824-551: The commander of the first crewed Buran flight. There were two purposes of the Soyuz T-12 mission, one of which was to give Volk spaceflight experience. The other purpose, seen as the more important factor, was to beat the United States and have the first spacewalk by a woman. At the time of the Soyuz T-12 mission the Buran programme was still a state secret . The appearance of Volk as a crew member caused some, including
1881-410: The engines were cut and OK-GLI glided back to land. This provided invaluable information about the handling characteristics of the Buran design, and significantly differed from the carrier plane/air drop method used by the United States and the Enterprise test craft. Twenty-four test flights of OK-GLI were performed by the Gromov Flight Research Institute test pilots and researchers after which
1938-538: The expendable Energia rocket as a launch vehicle . The Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union as a response to the United States Space Shuttle program and benefited from extensive espionage undertaken by the KGB of the unclassified US Space Shuttle program, resulting in many superficial and functional similarities between American and Soviet Shuttle designs. Although the Buran class
1995-420: The failed Soyuz 25 mission of 1977, stipulated that all Soviet space missions must contain at least one crew member who has been to space before. In 1982, it was decided that all Buran commanders and their back-ups would occupy the third seat on a Soyuz mission, prior to their Buran spaceflight. Several people had been selected to potentially be in the first Buran crew. By 1985, it was decided that at least one of
2052-477: The ground-based test systems), as well as the development and debugging environment SAPO PROLOGUE. There was also an operating system known as Prolog Manager. Work on these languages continued beyond the end of the Buran programme, with PROL2 being extended into SIPROL, and eventually all three languages developed into DRAKON which is still in use in the Russian space industry. A declassified May 1990 CIA report citing open-source intelligence material states that
2109-744: The initial test configuration, in which the Polyus system was used as a final stage intended to put the payload into orbit, and Energia-Buran, in which the Buran orbiter was the payload and the source of the orbit insertion impulse. The launch vehicle had the capacity to place about 100 tonnes in Low Earth orbit , up to 20 tonnes to geostationary orbit and up to 32 tonnes by translunar trajectory into lunar orbit . The Antonov An-225 Mriya ( Ukrainian : Антонов Ан-225 Мрія , lit. 'dream' or 'inspiration'; NATO reporting name : Cossack)
2166-411: The late 1950s, at the very beginning of the space age. The idea of Soviet reusable space flight is very old, though it was neither continuous nor consistently organized. Before Buran, no project of the programme reached operational status. The first step toward a reusable Soviet spacecraft was the 1954 Burya , a high-altitude prototype jet aircraft/cruise missile. Several test flights were made before it
2223-628: The lead of Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy , the Soviet Union's Military-Industrial Commission, or VPK, was tasked with collecting all data it could on the U.S. Space Shuttle. Under the auspices of the KGB, the VPK was able to amass documentation on the American shuttle's airframe designs, design analysis software, materials, flight computer systems and propulsion systems. The KGB targeted many university research project documents and databases, including Caltech, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and others. The thoroughness of
2280-521: The same name would be used as a service module for the International Space Station . After Zvezda, there was a hiatus in reusable projects until Buran. The Buran orbital vehicle programme was developed in response to the U.S. Space Shuttle program, which raised considerable concerns among the Soviet military and especially Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov . An authoritative chronicler of the Soviet and later Russian space programme,
2337-413: The shuttle was "worn out". The developers considered using a couple of Mil Mi-26 helicopters to "bundle" lift the Buran, but test flights with a mock-up showed how risky and impractical that was. The VM-T ferried components and the Antonov An-225 Mriya (the heaviest airplane ever) was designed and used to ferry the shuttle. The flight and ground-testing software also required research. In 1983
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2394-770: The software for the Buran spacecraft was written in "the French-developed programming language known as Prolog ", possibly due to confusion with the name PROLOGUE. Until the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, seven cosmonauts were allocated to the Buran programme and trained on the OK-GLI ("Buran aerodynamic analogue") test vehicle. All had experience as test pilots. They were: Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin , Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai , Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko , Aleksandr Vladimirovich Shchukin , Rimantas Antanas Stankevičius , Igor Petrovich Volk , and Viktor Vasiliyevich Zabolotsky . A rule, set in place for cosmonauts after
2451-516: The test flight in 1988, as well as a mock-up of an Energia booster rocket. It was not clear to outsiders at the time which orbiter was destroyed and the BBC reported that it was just "a model" of the orbiter. It occurred at the MIK RN/MIK 112 building at Site 112 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome , 14 years after the only Buran flight . Work on the roof had begun for a maintenance project, whose equipment
2508-456: The time of its cancellation, 20 billion roubles had been spent on the Buran programme. Commenting on the discontinuation of the programme in his interview to New Scientist , Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov described the project's end: "We had no civilian tasks for Buran and the military ones were no longer needed." The programme was designed to boost national pride, carry out research, and meet technological objectives similar to those of
2565-476: The two crew members would be a test pilot trained at the Gromov Flight Research Institute (known as "LII"), and potential crew lists were drawn up. Only two potential Buran crew members reached space: Igor Volk , who flew in Soyuz T-12 to the space station Salyut 7 , and Anatoli Levchenko who visited Mir , launching with Soyuz TM-4 and landing with Soyuz TM-3 . Both of these spaceflights lasted about
2622-610: Was a Soviet and later Russian reusable spacecraft project that began in 1974 at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in Moscow and was formally suspended in 1993. In addition to being the designation for the whole Soviet/Russian reusable spacecraft project, Buran was also the name given to orbiter 1K , which completed one uncrewed spaceflight in 1988 and was the only Soviet reusable spacecraft to be launched into space. The Buran-class orbiters used
2679-620: Was a strategic airlift cargo aircraft designed and produced by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union . It was originally developed during the 1980s as an enlarged derivative of the Antonov An-124 airlifter for transporting Buran spacecraft . On 21 December 1988, the An-225 performed its maiden flight ; only one aircraft was ever completed, although a second airframe with a slightly different configuration
2736-649: Was a 1980s super-heavy lift launch vehicle . It was designed by NPO 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 was the Khartron NPO "Electropribor". The Energia used four strap-on boosters each powered by a four-chamber RD-170 engine burning kerosene / LOX , and a central core stage with four single-chamber RD-0120 (11D122) engines fueled by liquid hydrogen /LOX. The launch vehicle had two functionally different operational variants: Energia-Polyus,
2793-525: Was a delta-winged spaceplane based heavily on the US Space Shuttle design, equipped with three liquid hydrogen engines, strapped to a detachable external tank and four liquid fuel boosters (NPO Energiya even considered the use of solid propellant rocket boosters, further imitating the US Shuttle's configuration). A compromise between these two proposals was achieved by NPO Energiya in January 1976 with
2850-522: Was able to fly under its own power. Following a series of atmospheric test flights using the jet-powered OK-GLI prototype, the first operational spacecraft ( Buran , orbiter 1K ) flew one uncrewed test mission. At 03:00 UTC on 15 November 1988, Buran and the Energia carrier rocket lifted off from pad 110/37 in Baikonur. The life support system was not installed for the flight and no data
2907-580: Was cancelled by order of the Central Committee . The Burya had the goal of delivering a nuclear payload, presumably to the United States, and then returning to base. The Burya programme was cancelled by the USSR in favor of a decision to develop ICBMs instead. The next iteration of a reusable spacecraft was the Zvezda design, which also reached a prototype stage. Decades later, another project with
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#17327655971022964-432: Was changed in 1991 to the following: After the first flight of a Buran shuttle, the project was suspended due to lack of funds and the political situation in the Soviet Union. The two subsequent orbiters, which were due in 1990 (Orbiter 2K) and 1992 (Orbiter 3K) were never completed with other articles being scrapped (see next section). The project was officially terminated on 30 June 1993, by President Boris Yeltsin . At
3021-647: Was displayed on the CRT displays in the Command Compartment. The shuttle orbited the Earth twice, travelling 83,707 kilometres (52,013 mi) in 3 hours and 25 minutes (0.14 flight days). On its return, it performed an automated landing on the shuttle runway (Site 251) at Baikonur Cosmodrome . The planned flights for the shuttles in 1989, before the downsizing of the project and eventual cancellation, were: The planned uncrewed second flight of orbiter 2K
3078-464: Was partially built. After a brief period of use in the Soviet space programme, the aircraft was mothballed during the early 1990s. Towards the turn of the century, it was decided to refurbish the An-225 and reintroduce it for commercial operations, carrying oversized payloads for the operator Antonov Airlines . Multiple announcements were made regarding the potential completion of the second airframe, though its construction largely remained on hold due to
3135-401: Was similar in appearance to NASA 's Space Shuttle orbiter , and could similarly operate as a re-entry spaceplane , its final internal and functional design was different. For example, the main engines during launch were on the Energia rocket and were not taken into orbit by the spacecraft. Smaller rocket engines on the craft's body provided propulsion in orbit and de-orbital burns, similar to
3192-517: Was that such weapons could only be effectively tested in actual space conditions and that to cut their development time and save costs it would be necessary to regularly bring them back to Earth for modifications and fine-tuning. Soviet officials were also concerned that the U.S. Space Shuttle could make a sudden dive into the atmosphere to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow. In 1974, Valentin Glushko 's design bureau, OKB-1 (later NPO Energiya), proposed
3249-615: Was the largest aircraft in the world to fly multiple times. Before the Mriya was ready (after the Buran had flown), the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant , a variant on the Soviet Myasishchev M-4 Molot (Hammer) bomber (NATO code: Bison), fulfilled the same role. The development of the Buran began in the early 1970s as a response to the U.S. Space Shuttle program. Soviet officials were concerned about
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