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"Buran" is a Soviet orbital rocket ship of
the reusable space transport system (MTKS), created as part of the
Energiya-Buran program.
The first and only space flight "Buran"
made November 15, 1988 in automatic mode, "Buran" was designed for
100 flights into space.). A number of technical solutions obtained during the
creation of Buran were used in Russian and foreign rocket and space
technology.
"Buran" was intended for:
- launching into orbits, service on them and return
to the Earth of space vehicles, cosmonauts and cargoes;
- carrying out military-applied research and
experiments to ensure the creation of large space systems using weapons based
on long-known and recently studied physical principles:
- solution of target tasks in the interests of the
national economy, science and defense;
- Comprehensive countermeasures against the
potential adversary's measures to expand the use of outer space for military
purposes.
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