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Photos from the Buran program Online archive at buranarchive.space #StandWithUkraine by @buran.space

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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 19/03/2026
1993: The fuselage of Buran test article 0.11 with wings from two different orbiters is transported by barge from NPO Molniya's Tushino factory to Gorky Park, where it would spend the next two decades. In the background - the White House just days after shelling
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 19/02/2026
After a spot of pre-dinner retouching, a lovely new photo of a Myasishchev VM-T Atlant during a flight test with a Buran orbiter test article on its back.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 15/02/2026
Over 4000 images now on buranarchive.space!
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 02/01/2026
The abort towers coasted under parachute after jettison from the Soyuz stack and the seats then ejected at around 35-40km altitude and speeds up to Mach 3.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 02/01/2026
Another 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.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 21/12/2025
A 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.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 24/11/2025
SVOD 1:10 scale test stand at NIIKhimmash, used to test the gas dynamics and plume interactions with the pad during the ignition and liftoff of the Energia-Buran stack. Image: "Reusable Space System Energia-Buran", OmV Luch, 2004
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 09/11/2025
Buran cabin module in the assembly workshop of NPO Molniya's Tushino Machine-building Plant (TMZ).
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 09/11/2025
Buran and the Antonov An-225 Mriya.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 03/11/2025
The business end of the Energia 4M and the Buran orbiter in Baikonur's Rocket Assembly and Test Facility after the 2002 roof collapse.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 30/10/2025
Cutaway of the Zarya reusable capsule developed by NPO Energia in the 1980s. The spacecraft would use Buran-derived reusable heat protection tiles. 1. Descent module 2. Cargo 3. Landing engine 4. Work compartment 5. Pressure vessel 6. Porthole 7. Star sensor 8. Ejection seat 9. Control panel
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 29/10/2025
In one of the high bays in the Rocket Assembly and Test Facility (MIK RN). Two Energia core stages in the background.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 26/10/2025
Classic Buran orbiter section view.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 23/10/2025
NPO Energia chief Valentin Glushko with a model of the Energia rocket in late 1987.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 18/10/2025
Buran on the pad in November 1988.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 14/10/2025
TsAGI wind tunnel model of the Buran orbiter. via TsAGI on TheFacebook/Facemash
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 14/10/2025
Energia 6SL on the Universal Test Stand and Launch Complex (UKSS) in 1987.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 11/10/2025
Buran wind tunnel model at TsAGI.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 10/10/2025
Here's a rare sight: the Energia core stage oxygen tank during manufacturing at the Progress factory in Samara.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 10/10/2025
Energia core stage and Blok Ya launch table adapter in the MIK RN building in Baikonur.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 09/10/2025
A tour visiting one of the low bays of the Rocket Assembly and Test Facility (MIK RN) at Baikonur's site 112. A beautiful selection of Energia strap-on booster segments on view!
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 04/10/2025
Inside the engine section of the Energia core stage.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 24/09/2025
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 · 23/09/2025
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 · 22/09/2025
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 · 21/09/2025
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 · 20/09/2025
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 · 19/09/2025
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 · 18/09/2025
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 · 18/09/2025
And in cases where the next page bleeds through, an extra page of extracted text!
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 18/09/2025
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 · 17/09/2025
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 · 17/09/2025
Buran on the An-225 Mriya at the Yubileyniy Airfield in Baikonur in 1989.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 16/09/2025
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 · 13/09/2025
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 · 13/09/2025
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 · 13/09/2025
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 · 12/09/2025
Launch of Polyus (Skif-DM) and Energia 6SL on 15 May 1987.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 09/09/2025
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 · 08/09/2025
A mockup of Energia's hydrogen tank on the Myasishchev VM-T Atlant
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 07/09/2025
Buran touching down after the orbital flight as seen from behind. Note the mighty wingtip vortex and the bright flashes of the APU exhaust.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 04/09/2025
Energia 1L and Buran stacked on pad 110/37 in Baikonur ahead of the orbital flight.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 22/08/2025
Flight profile of Energia-2, the proposed fully reusable successor to Energia.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 19/08/2025
"President of [France] François Mitterrand, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze and other officials during the inspection of the reusable spacecraft Buran in the assembly and testing building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome."
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 17/08/2025
A rare sight: Buran test article OK-MT and an Energia model erected at Baikonur’s pad 110/37.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 16/08/2025
Buran and Energia on pad 110/37 in Baikonur in October/November 1988.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 16/08/2025
One more
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 16/08/2025
A cool view of the end effector of the Buran robotic arm.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 11/08/2025
I don’t know for sure but it’s perfectly possible that ones in the first two photos are destined for the UKSS and the ones in the third for site 110.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 11/08/2025
it is real!
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