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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 4d

Inside the engine section of the Energia core stage.

Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 14d

1987 illustration of the possible appearance of the Energia family based on the limited available images as published in the Freie Welt magazine.

Freie Welt, xx, 1987
via space.org.ru/Media/Images/Enargy1.jpg

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 15d

Buran being mated to the VM-T Atlant at Zhukovsky airfield before the ferry flight to Baikonur, 1985.

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 16d

Fuselage of the cancelled Buran orbiter 3K in the TMZ factory in Tushino near Moscow in 2000.

Alexei Mikheyev via buran ru

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 17d

Disassembly and transport of Buran aerodynamic analogue OK-GLI in October 1999.

via buran-energia.com/bourane-buran/bourane-modele-gli-demontage.php

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 18d

Licensintorg poster advertising Energia-Buran launch services in the West.

Scan by @gimme_yo_beans on Twitter (acc suspended since), retouched by yours truly

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 19d

The Energia-M mockup on the way to the UKSS for pad tests.

via ok.ru

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 20d

Energia test article 3D in the MIK 112 building in Baikonur.

via forum.raumfahrer.net/index.php?to...

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 20d

And in cases where the next page bleeds through, an extra page of extracted text!

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 20d

Lots of document scans on early Buran, Energia, OK-92, OS-120 and the RLA family assembled in order as the individual pages trickle out from Roscosmos and RGANTD. Slowly working on adding the translated text in the descriptions.

Check it out!

buranarchive.space/index?/categ...

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 21d

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maks @buran.space · 21d

I found some footage of the tripropellant preburner demonstrator hot fire test from the Aerojet-CADB (KBKhA) RD-0120 program.

The article also includes this video as well.

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 21d

This video has been doing the rounds recently, so here's the full resolution clip from the documentary "Doroga v Kosmos. Energia Buran: Polet v Budushcheye"

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 21d

Buran on the An-225 Mriya at the Yubileyniy Airfield in Baikonur in 1989.

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 22d

Lovely photo of Energia integration in the Rocket Assembly and Test Facility (MIK RN) in Baikonur. And a fresh Blok Ya launch table adapter at the bottom of the frame.

Human for scale!

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 24d

That’s fine but you’re being annoying now

Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 25d

And here's a longer shot of Buran and Zarya (FGB) in MIK 254 in Baikonur.

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 25d

MIK 254 is also where all Russian ISS modules were processed. Here's Zarya (FGB) in ~1997 with a familiar looking snout on the right in the background.

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 25d

via www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz5n...

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 25d

The Buran orbiter mothballed in the Orbiter Assembly and Test Facility (MIK OK) at site 254 in Baikonur in 1997; around a year before it was stacked with an Energia test article in MIK RN.

MIK OK (MIK 254) is currently the Soyuz spacecraft pre-flight processing facility.

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 26d

Launch of Polyus (Skif-DM) and Energia 6SL on 15 May 1987.

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 26d

Write-up on tripropellant RD-0120 development for X-33, RLV and Angara.
medium.com/fifty-one-po...

Exotic RD-0120 derivatives. Pt.2: Tripropellants, RLV, methane

After a tour of derivatives and variants of the Energia core stage RD-0120 engines that powered Buran to orbit, it’s time to explore …

medium.com

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 29d

KB Salyut's Energia launched in-space production spacecraft, the 102-tonne TMP. Derived from Skif (Polyus) hardware, the TMP had two docking ports and could receive Progress and Soyuz spacecraft or the MAKS spaceplane.

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · Sep 8

A mockup of Energia's hydrogen tank on the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant

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maks @buran.space · Sep 7

A collection of weird aircraft and payload configurations.

medium.com/@galopujacyj...

Transporting Buran and Energia: Soviet Space Logistics

From camouflaged barges to record-breaking aircraft, a deep dive into how Buran orbiters and Energia stages were transported to Baikonur.

medium.com

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