maks @buran.space · 25/03/2026My article on the reusable Zarya capsule now on TSR. thespacereview.com/article/5184/1 0102
Reposted by maksmaks @buran.space · 17/03/2026A look at the evolution of my beloved APAS-89 port from its 1970s origins to the triumphs of the ISS era. fiftyonepointsix.com/how-differen...fiftyonepointsix.comHow different are APAS-95 and APAS-89, really?A look at the evolution of the Author’s beloved docking port, from its Buran origins to the triumphs of the International Space Station. 0102
maks @buran.space · 17/03/2026A look at the evolution of my beloved APAS-89 port from its 1970s origins to the triumphs of the ISS era. fiftyonepointsix.com/how-differen...fiftyonepointsix.comHow different are APAS-95 and APAS-89, really?A look at the evolution of the Author’s beloved docking port, from its Buran origins to the triumphs of the International Space Station. 0102
Reposted by maksmaks @buran.space · 07/03/2026The full story of the ISS' peculiar Science Power Platform, from its origins as part of the Mir-2 complex, inclusion in ISS plans and cancellation, to the surprising resurrection. fiftyonepointsix.com/science-powe...fiftyonepointsix.comScience Power Platform: the ISS’ biggest flopThe Science Power Platform is a name many station enthusiasts have heard, but it’s one for which it is surprisingly hard to find a detailed… 0135
maks @buran.space · 07/03/2026The full story of the ISS' peculiar Science Power Platform, from its origins as part of the Mir-2 complex, inclusion in ISS plans and cancellation, to the surprising resurrection. fiftyonepointsix.com/science-powe...fiftyonepointsix.comScience Power Platform: the ISS’ biggest flopThe Science Power Platform is a name many station enthusiasts have heard, but it’s one for which it is surprisingly hard to find a detailed… 0135
maks @buran.space · 05/03/2026cheeky Science Power Platform pressure vessel in the background my article on the power stick should finally land in a couple of days, it's going to be pretty chonky, but well illustrated 140
maks @buran.space · 02/03/2026Recolored version of the Russ Arasmith illustration of the final Space Shuttle Phase B design by the NAR-led team; the Convair B9U booster and NAR-161-B orbiter. b&w scan by @macsjr.bsky.social, color via nasa.gov 0273
Reposted by maksmaks @buran.space · 24/02/2026RD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5 fiftyonepointsix.com/rd-170-butch...fiftyonepointsix.comRD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5In this issue: RD-170 development rigs, Energia tidbits and orbiters in cool places. 0133
maks @buran.space · 24/02/2026RD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5 fiftyonepointsix.com/rd-170-butch...fiftyonepointsix.comRD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5In this issue: RD-170 development rigs, Energia tidbits and orbiters in cool places. 0133
maks @buran.space · 17/02/2026Full 6 minute video of the MAKS tank mockup manufacturing and assembly at NPO Molniya and transport by helicopter.vimeo.comMAKS Tank Mockup Assembly - NPO MolniyaFootage of the assembly and transport of the external tank mockup for the MAKS spaceplane project, developed by NPO Molniya using Buran technology in the 1990s. 2133
maks @buran.space · 16/02/2026another previously unreleased photo of 1K "Buran" in the short-lived Baikal livery casually dropped by Vadim Lukashevich as part of a meme 0140
maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026Some shots from the 2004 online auction where the third Buran orbiter was for offered for sale on allegro (iykyk) 051
maks @buran.space · 15/02/2026ok sorry for the chaos, there might be something to this model after all. it does seem to be the same model as in this photo of Pilyugin and Lozino-Lozinskiy dated 1978 1131
Reposted by maksmaks @buran.space · 12/02/2026Orbiter curiosities fiftyonepointsix.com/orbiter-curi...fiftyonepointsix.comOrbiter curiosities. Deep Cuts Vol. 4In this issue, exclusive Buran orbiter photos and a Polyus cameo. 0186
maks @buran.space · 12/02/2026Orbiter curiosities fiftyonepointsix.com/orbiter-curi...fiftyonepointsix.comOrbiter curiosities. Deep Cuts Vol. 4In this issue, exclusive Buran orbiter photos and a Polyus cameo. 0186
maks @buran.space · 10/02/2026In a way quite infuriating that they’ve been sitting on these for 40 years. The photos in the top left were officially published in 2023 as crappy 800 pixel wide scans in black and white 060
maks @buran.space · 08/02/2026tbt when the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant carrying the second Buran orbiter skidded off the runway and got stuck in the snow at Zhukovsky 0140
maks @buran.space · 07/02/2026Another one. this time just a before and after the souvenirs were taken 0131
maks @buran.space · 05/02/2026If I got a penny for every time someone brought up bald and bankrupt to me I’d have at least 39 pennies 140
maks @buran.space · 04/02/2026my recreation of the Danne and Blackburn-era NASA video intro brutally compressed into gif form 060
maks @buran.space · 12/01/2026Messing around on Google Earth trying to locate bits of Buran and Energia hardware, and suddenly the MAKS propellant tank mockup appeared before my eyes, right next to a Myasishchev VM-T Atlant and the PKU-50 mate-demate device at Zhukovsky airfield. Image from 2002. 1110
maks @buran.space · 11/01/2026RD-150 and new Buran photos. fiftyonepointsix.com/massive-engi...fiftyonepointsix.comMassive engines and an old website. Deep cuts. Vol. 3New illustration of the RD-150 engine and rare Buran photos from a very old website. 0177
maks @buran.space · 09/01/20261/3 scale wooden model of the Buran orbiter at Zhukovsky in the 90s 1142
maks @buran.space · 09/01/2026a Buran forward fuselage test article outside NPO Molniya's Tushino factory gradually losing tiles to ebaycitis over time 0275
maks @buran.space · 08/01/2026Took me way too long to spot this, but Rockwell's full-scale mockup of the Shuttle orbiter was built before the design was finalised, so it features the Vehicle 4 configuration's longer OMS pods that overlap the payload bay instead of the blunt pods on the final Vehicle 6. 3152
maks @buran.space · 04/01/2026I now have over 1000 bits of shuttle concept art favorited on Flickr, sorted by contractor and model name 1111
Reposted by maksEnergia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 04/01/2026Some recent Buran finds. medium.com/fifty-one-po...medium.comTesting, testing. Deep cuts. Vol. 2In this installment of Deep Cuts, a short tour of test stands and test articles from the Buran program through images I have stumbled upon… 0166
Reposted by maksEnergia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 02/01/2026Another Vadim Lukashevich gem. This time, the setup for ejection seat tests during Progress flights to Mir. The first generation of the Progress used standard Soyuz launch abort towers and Progress 38 through 42 flew with a Zvezda K-36RB seat and a dummy cosmonaut that ejected after tower jettison. 3275
Reposted by maksEnergia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 21/12/2025A lovely image from the NK forum: a mockup of the RD-150, a 1000 tonne thrust kerolox engine for the RLA family, which later evolved into the Energia and Zenit. 0211
maks @buran.space · 07/12/2025Enjoy fiftyonepointsix.com/deep-cuts-vo...fiftyonepointsix.comDeep cuts. Vol. 1The first installment in a semi-regular series of interesting bits of Buran-related materials I came across recently. 0143
Reposted by maksmaks @buran.space · 22/12/2024How many Buran orbiters were actually built? More than you think. Here's every one of them - it's a long one. medium.com/@energiabura...medium.comBuran Orbiters: A Catalogue RaisonnéA list of full scale Buran orbiters. 12411