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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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maks @buran.space · 07/03/2026
The 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...
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Science Power Platform: the ISS’ biggest flop
The 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…
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maks @buran.space · 24/02/2026
RD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5 fiftyonepointsix.com/rd-170-butch...
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RD-170 butchery and book scans. Deep Cuts Vol. 5
In this issue: RD-170 development rigs, Energia tidbits and orbiters in cool places.
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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 · 19/02/2026
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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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maks @buran.space · 17/02/2026
Full 6 minute video of the MAKS tank mockup manufacturing and assembly at NPO Molniya and transport by helicopter.
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MAKS Tank Mockup Assembly - NPO Molniya
Footage 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.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 15/02/2026
Over 4000 images now on buranarchive.space!
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maks @buran.space · 12/02/2026
Orbiter curiosities fiftyonepointsix.com/orbiter-curi...
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Orbiter curiosities. Deep Cuts Vol. 4
In this issue, exclusive Buran orbiter photos and a Polyus cameo.
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maks @buran.space · 07/02/2026
Another one. this time just a before and after the souvenirs were taken
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maks @buran.space · 11/01/2026
RD-150 and new Buran photos. fiftyonepointsix.com/massive-engi...
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Massive engines and an old website. Deep cuts. Vol. 3
New illustration of the RD-150 engine and rare Buran photos from a very old website.
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maks @buran.space · 09/01/2026
a Buran forward fuselage test article outside NPO Molniya's Tushino factory gradually losing tiles to ebaycitis over time
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maks @buran.space · 09/01/2026
1/3 scale wooden model of the Buran orbiter at Zhukovsky in the 90s
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 04/01/2026
Some recent Buran finds. medium.com/fifty-one-po...
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Testing, testing. Deep cuts. Vol. 2
In this installment of Deep Cuts, a short tour of test stands and test articles from the Buran program through images I have stumbled upon…
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 02/01/2026
*Mach 5
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 02/01/2026
M for Mach in this case! The seats were tested up to Mach 5 iirc.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 02/01/2026
Yep! But the first generation of the Progress used standard Soyuz fairings and abort towers, just without the solid motors inside, hence the empty space for the seat. Starting in 1990 the new Progress-M started flying with dedicated fairings.
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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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maks @buran.space · 07/12/2025
Enjoy fiftyonepointsix.com/deep-cuts-vo...
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Deep cuts. Vol. 1
The first installment in a semi-regular series of interesting bits of Buran-related materials I came across recently.
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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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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 31/10/2025
I moved the captions into the diagram, I hope you approve!
Diagram of Zarya spacecraft
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 30/10/2025
10. Antenna of the rendezvous equipment 11. Engine compartment 12. On-board equipment 13. Docking and orientation engines 14. Heat shield shock absorber 15. Doppler velocimeter 16. Refueling and propulsion system 17. Expendable compartment 18. SEP and EKhG 19. Wall-mounted radiator
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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
Thanks!
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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
Moscow during the International Congress "Cooperation in Space for Peace on Earth" in October 87.
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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
Aluminum!
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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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