Status
As well as the five production Burans, there were eight test vehicles. These were used for static testing or atmospheric trials, and some were merely mock-ups for testing of electrical fittings, crew procedures, etc.
| Image | Serial number | Construction Date | Usage | Current status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space Flight Burans (Production vehicles) | ||||
| Shuttle OK-1K1 — "Buran" (11F35 K1) | 1986 | Unmanned flight (1988) | Destroyed in the Buran hangar collapse in 2002. (Discussion of the dispute is on another article's talk page, Talk:Buran_(spacecraft)#Destruction_section.) | |
| Shuttle OK-1K2 — informally "Ptichka" (11F35 K2) | 1988 | 95-97% completed, unused | Property of Kazakhstan, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the MIK Building. | |
| Shuttle OK-2K1 "Baikal" (?) (11F35 K3) | 1990 | Incomplete | Moved from Khimki Reservoir in Moscow to Zhukovsky airfield in order to be prepared for the MAKS-2011 | |
| Shuttle OK-TK(?) (11F35 K4) | 1991 | Incomplete | Partially dismantled, remains outside Tushino Machine Building Plant, near Moscow. | |
| Shuttle 2.03 (11F35 K5) | 1992 | Incomplete | Dismantled. | |
| Aero and Static Tester Burans (Mock-ups) | ||||
| OK-M (later OK-ML-1) | 1982 | Static test | Static test model: parts, normal temperature static loads, moment of inertia, payload mass, interface tests (horizontal and vertical) with the launch vehicle. Located at Baikonur Cosmodrome. | |
| OK-KS (003) | 1982 | Static electrical/integration test | Static test model: electronic and electric. Located at the Energia factory in Korolev | |
| OK-MT (later OK-ML-2) | 1983 | Engineering mock-up | Static test model: documentation, loading methods for liquids and gases, hermetic system integrity, crew entry and exit, manuals. Located at Baikonur Cosmodrome. | |
| OK-GLI (Buran Analog BTS-002) | 1984 | Aero test | Analogue aero test model. Completed 25 aero test flights and 9 taxi tests. Bought by the Technikmuseum Speyer, transported to Germany in 2008. | |
| OK-??? (Model 005?) | Static test | Vibration and vacuum test vehicle. Location unknown. | ||
| OK-TVI | Static heat/vacuum testbed | Static test model: Environmental chamber heat/vacuum, thermal regimes. Location: NIIKhimMash, Moscow. | ||
| OK-??? (Model 008?) | Static test | Vibration and vacuum test vehicle. Location unknown. | ||
| OK-TVA | Static test | Structural test vehicle: loads and stresses, heating and vibration. Located in Gorky Park, Moscow. | ||
| Related Scale Models and Ships | ||||
| BOR-4 | 1982–1984 | Sub-scale model of the Spiral space plane | 1:2 scale model of Spiral space plane. 5 launches. NPO Molniya, Moscow. | |
| BOR-5 ("Kosmos") | 1983–1988 | Suborbital test of 1/8 scale model of Buran | 5 launches, none were reflown but at least 4 were recovered. NPO Molniya, Moscow. | |
| Full-scale crew section | Medical-biological tests | |||
| GLI Horizontal Flight Simulator | Flight control software fine tuning | |||
| Wind tunnel models | Scales from 1:3 to 1:550 | 85 models built | ||
| Gas dynamics models | Scales from 1:15 to 1:2700 | |||
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