Energiya/Buran

In-active Re-Usable

Energia (OKB-1)

Nov. 15, 1988

Description

Energia (Russian: Энергия, Energiya, "Energy") (GRAU 11K25) was a Soviet rocket that was designed by NPO Energia to serve as a heavy-lift partially recoverable launch system for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft.

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    97.0 m
  • Diameter
    17.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    2629.0 T
  • Thrust
    35301.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Energiya/Buran
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Energiya/Buran
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    90400.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
    20000.0 kg
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Energia

Government
None
OKB-1 1946

None

Energiya/Buran | Buran OK-1K

Energia | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 15, 1988, 3 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First and only flight of the Buran space shuttle

Low Earth Orbit
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