Buran spaceship

2022: Completion of the bankruptcy procedure of the plant that assembled Buran

December 21, 2022 Arbitration Court Moscow completed the bankruptcy procedure of the Tushino Machine-Building Plant (TMZ). More. here

2020: Rogozin instructed to create an analogue of Buran

In early August 2020, it became known that the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin instructed to develop options for a winged manned space shuttle, which would become an analogue of the Buran spacecraft created in the USSR. It is assumed that the new development will replace the "Union of MS."

If we replace the Soyuz MS to service orbital stations, because the operation of the Eagle will be expensive for these purposes, we need to make a reusable ship of a completely different configuration - something like the Buran with the ability to land on runways. I set such a task for our engineers. Energia Corporation and other teams will now offer this kind of options for space technology, Rogozin said in a conversation with RIA Novosti.

At the same time, the head of Roscosmos stressed that an analogue of Buran would not be created in the near future.

Rogozin instructed to develop an analogue of the Buran to replace the Soyuz ships

Soyuz MS, of course, will still serve. It is constantly being modernized. But endless modernization is disastrous for the development of space technology, he added.

By August 2020, RSC Energia is developing the first two copies of the Oryol ship: the first will be a full-size mock-up for tests during the first launch at Angara-A5 in 2023 and Yenisei in 2028, and the second will be a full-fledged reusable ship (10 flights) for flight tests and subsequent operation.

The head of the Space Policy Institute, Ivan Moiseev, in a conversation with the Vzglyad newspaper, noted the role of Buran in Soviet cosmonautics. According to the expert, this spacecraft "ate all the money that can be spent on space" and deprived the country of "resources to create a payload, for which the ship was created."

Now there is neither money nor the goal of creating something similar, "he said, commenting on Rogozin's plans to develop an analogue of Buran[1]

1988

Reusable orbital rocket ship Buran on the super-heavy rocket carrier Energia. USSR, November 1988.

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