The original goal for the Buran program was to fly a total of ten test flights using five orbiters. Although considered test flights, most or all of these missions were to be flown to the Mir space station and carry out what would usually be considered operational tasks. All missions would carry 37KB modules in the cargo bay. Three of those were supposed to be built by the Khrunichev factory (serial nrs. 37070, 37071, and 37072). On the early test flights these modules would mainly carry instrumentation and remain in the cargo bay, but eventually at least two of them were to be turned into small scientific laboratories (renamed 37KBI, “I” standing for “research”) that would be left behind at the lateral docking port of Mir’s Kristall module to be picked up on a subsequent mission [1].
Shattered dreams, new beginnings
2007-01-01
67 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
International Space Station , Launch Vehicle , Geostationary Orbit , Design Bureau , Payload Capacity Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Popular Science, general , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics , Astronomy, Observations and Techniques , Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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