Fwd: Buran - ahead of its time

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: November 15, 2015 at 8:11:12 PM CST
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: Buran - ahead of its time

 

                                               

 

STORY. "Buran" - FLIGHT, ahead of its time

11/15/2015 10:00

November 15, 1988 at 06:00 at the launch pad Baikonur Cosmodrome №110 first time in history of Russian cosmonautics was launched reusable space transportation system "Energy-Buran". In 2015, this significant event celebrates 27 years.

Having made two turns around the Earth, the orbital ship "Buran" after 205 minutes, at 09:25, landing at the runway airfield "Jubilee." For the first time in the world was carried out landing orbiter in the automatic mode. Rejection of the program in time to stop a ship at the time the band was one second, and the deviation of the vehicle from the axis of the band - only 1.5 meters.

Created during the "Star Wars", "Buran" was a creation of the great Soviet designers. His only mission in November 1988 and the descent to Earth automatically running onboard computer entered the "Guinness Book of Records."

The structure of space-rocket complex "Energiya-Buran" is a universal super-heavy carrier rocket "Energy", orbital ship "Buran", as well as a means of space infrastructure booster and orbiter.

Orbiter "Buran" - a reusable spacecraft that can make long flights, orbital maneuvering, controlled descent and landing on aircraft specially equipped airfield. Use the "Buran" could deliver astronauts and space payloads weighing up to 30 tons, as well as the repair and maintenance of spacecraft directly in orbit.

In the creation of reusable space system "Energy-Buran" was attended by more than 1,200 enterprises and organizations, nearly 70 ministries. During the 18 years of the program were more than a million people, the total expenditure amounted to over 16 billion rubles (more than $ 10 billion at the rate of the early 1980's).

The second launch of the carrier rocket "Energy" was the last. In 1993, the program "Energy-Buran" due to lack of funding has been closed.

 

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