Soviet Space Shuttle Buran - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

That was a great animation.. I wish the Soviets had continued with their shuttle program but alas, like ours it was probably too expensive

[@rseferino1]

Post-Soviet Russia did not have the economy to continue the Buran program.

[@scott6504]

Какая красивая машина!! Спасибо за видео! 👍

[@jamiegodman715]

MIR could have been a much larger and more impressive space station if Russia could have kept the Buran flying on the massive Energia rocket. It's too bad Buran only flew once.

[@blazeyt7543]

Ikr

[@official_gd_sadd_2025_yt]

IKR! But America Launched 135 Space Shuttles in Total! But 2 of them Broke Up!

[@Rotorhead99]

They had one on display in Sydney Australia back in 2000. It was the jet engined version used for testing. It looked like it was built of bricks close up. Very cool, shame it didn't fly more.

[@nidnerp]

Oh! How I miss those days of strong space competition :)

[@pepsidoggo1598]

@John Smith Keep saying that to yourself, troll

[@pavelsidorov8903]

Это космическая техника моей великой страны, в которой мне повезло родиться - СССР!

[@old3445]

***** Только увы буран совершилд два автовитка и до самой смерти стоял в ангаре.

[@МаксимКрицкий-и4б]

@@old3445 только увы, мистер Горби пришел к власти.

[@janembabel]

I miss that rocket...

[@antoninmathieu8701]

It's very interesting to note that several components of Mir-2 were used on the DOS-7 and ISS. For example,Zarya and Zvezda were originally built for Mir-2. And the docking module was launched to Mir with the Orbiter Atlantis,on STS-74.

[@riponhagi1167]

by

[@Osvaldo-Castro]

Beautiful!

[@sammyfeldman4766]

1:40 the booster glitched and went through the wing How did they deal with that in Buran's only launch?

[@MrSparker95]

+Sammy Feldman On real Energiya rocket the side boosters were separated in pairs. After a while the pairs were also separated into separate boosters.

[@sammyfeldman4766]

Sparker Ohhh ok thanks!

[@pedrovicnt_]

yes it happened,buran had only one launch

[@ZemplinTemplar]

So, an alternate fate for the Buran and the Mir 2 project, ey ? Nicely done vid, as always. :-)

[@ronettreker]

For those saying that Buran was an improved version of the Space Shuttle, I disagree. The basic idea behind the Space Shuttle was to make a LEO spacecraft that would have been as reusable as possible. For that reason, the Space Shuttle had most of it's systems incorporated into the orbiter, including the three main engines. The Space Shuttle had only 2 side boosters allowing for an easier recovery. The only disposable part of the Space Shuttle was the orange fuel tank. The Buran however wasn't designed with reusability in mind. Buran had 4 side boosters making recovery harder(if there was any attempt at recovery since the boosters most likely landed in the hard desert ground unlike the Space Shuttle's SRBs which parachuted into the sea). The Buran also had it's main engines on the central fuel tank which separated from the orbiter, thus the expensive engines were lost.

[@nagantm441]

they actually did recover the boosters to see how the rd-170 engines performed. the boosters had parachutes. also, the RD-0120 LH2 engines on the main energia booster as far less expensive than the SSME due to them being designed to be expendable.

[@Serikkazy1969]

Слов нет !!!

[@Italianstallion-v2f]

How does it counteract the center of mass being off center without engines on the shuttle?

[@paranormalinquisitor]

Why is this simulation showing the buran rolling 90 degrees and ending up on the underside after liftoff. The reason the shuttle does this is to get out over the Atlantic. There is no reason for the buran to do it.

[@rseferino1]

***** Rolling about 70 degrees because the launchpad-110 is oriented north-north-east. Buran is also designed for missions in polar orbit.

[@ryanteeter4678]

It's how it was actually launched

[@paranormalinquisitor]

Rseferino Orbiter Filmmaker rolling a rocket does not change its direction in relation to the ground. It changes its trajectory. Not sure what you are talking about.

[@UndeadPizzaGuy]

***** Not like that, It's so that the shuttle can communicate with ground stations as it heads farther downrange.

[@EricIrl]

noneof yourbusiness The initial roll performed by the Shuttle shortly after launch was for a number of reasons. Firstly it placed the Shuttle on the right launch trajectory. Secondly, it placed the Orbiter in a position where it was hanging underneath the External Tank during ascent. This was an extremely important thing to do as it reduced the aerodynamic load and the physical stresses on the whole stack - especially in respect of the three attachment points which held the Orbiter to the ET. Since the Buran was attached to the Energia booster in a similar arrangement, it is highly likely that the roll would need to be performed by Buran for the same reasons as the Shuttle.

[@ArtForSwans]

Fun fact: Buran was created as a counterpart to the shuttle because the Soviets suspected the US shuttle was a military craft, and as such Buran was designed to be able to carry weapons into space. When the Soviets learned that the US Shuttle was not designed to be an orbital weapons powerhouse, they scrapped Buran and placed the only orbiter built in a warehouse after the collapse of the Soviet Union, during which the warehouse did some collapsing of its own and destroyed Buran.

[@killman369547]

actually buran now sits in gorky park in moscow... as a fun fair ride

[@pylt93]

killman369547 that ona its a mock-up the ona that flew in the test flight orbit was indeed destroyed however it was not stored because of the reasons exposed by VostokTheROBOT but because the collaps of the soviet union the early russian goverment had enought problems and economic inestability and the soyus was cheaper and had its reliability proved so the shuttle was stored with the hope of using it domeday again and the training model (that was shown also in paris in the late 80s) was put in display. The lak of founds purpose and interest shut down the buran program in the mid 90's and n the late 90's the collaps of the hangar occured meaning that the mock up is the only remain of that shuttle program

[@Tobeydude20]

yeah dude but still the Space Shuttle was a military piece they wanted to steal probes and attack space stations with it .

[@Tobeydude20]

there were also i think Alams stations with cannons and lets not forget the mockup station poljus

[@jackdets7450]

rhetorical ABM Sprint Polyus was not a station, it was a mockup SPACE LASER. and the space shuttle was not military but it did deploy military probes.

[@Waffle4569]

Holly crap! Where can I find those orgasmic surface texture/tiles???

[@Bikewithlove]

The music is extraordinary

[@waleedahmed4591]

thats a more beautiful and automated shuttle

[@EliranC]

Wasn't as good as the Space Shuttle, only 1 was built, never took actual people to space, launched only empty. Canceled after a while, can't say if it was safer or not consider it's has been to space only once. Look like a ripoff of the USA space shuttle too, I don't say the ship was bad, she was beautiful but impossible to confirm anything. The saddest part of all, is that the fate of that poor shuttle was to be crashed by the Hangar it was stored on, according to many resources, the maintenance of the shuttle (not just the hangar), was so poor, that many speculate that even if she wouldn't be crashed, doubtfully she could ever be reused and fly to space again like the USA shuttle did, even if she would be massively refurbished, building a new shuttle instead, would be cheaper, so that's how bad the maintenance was ... Therefore, it was never officially considered a full space shuttle as it was never proven it would be reusable, (not saying it wasn't capable of but common fact) I am sure if she would've been taken care of the right way, she would've been a great space shuttle ... Also worth mentioning that the Soviet Era was full of BS and false facts/propaganda, so no one really knows anything about it for certainty, not even if she really was canceled by the fall of the soviet union or that she was never truly capable of being reusable after her landing. (due to miss calculations and so on) Edit: also forgot to mention, that the actual design for her was confirmed to be stolen by the KGB from the USA, stolen in the 1970s, the ship was so alike that the space shuttles of the USA could connect to MIR with hardly any adjusts, would never be possible without a major overhaul unless the basic body structure was the same.

[@waleedahmed4591]

Eliran Cohen but the 14 people died while in the shuttle the challenger and columbia accident

[@EliranC]

waleed khalid So ignorant lel, out of 135 missions, 2 went bad, that's 1.3% fail rate, and even then, wasn't ship related but launch problems. I am sure that there was gazillion of flaws in this one too, but of course, as it had only 1 mission, she never had a chance to fail. I can also say the same of STS 1 "oh look it made 1 perfect flight, it is the safest ship ever", heck, check the airlines all around the world. How many people died in Russian airlines? you are no sense.

[@alikormed5816]

Eliran Cohen your right

[@brianweekes8273]

@@EliranC None of that proves that it was better or worse than the US shuttle. It never flew again for political and economic reasons, not because of any fault of its own. Really the failure of the Russian government to keep Buran/Energia and develop reusable Energia as well was as much a crime as the US governments decision to abandon Skylab.

[@diabeticalien3584]

What an amazing craft

[@matthewwang4573]

Awesome! I love any type of space shuttle.

[@innosam123]

You should do Energia-Polyubus-potentially of an operational Soviet space battle station. Or even just MOL. Plz?

[@StellarYankee]

She was a poem the world couldn’t read...

[@rseferino1]

This video, 856x480, my screen (laptop) 1280x720. My next videos will be in HD 1280x720

[@rseferino1]

@tsman2709 Be the same exhaust Energia. This add-on for some reason no longer be in orbithangar * com

[@MrCaptainDietrich]

hi Rseferino Orbiter Filmmaker where can i buy ore download this cool space simulator? nice video

[@rseferino1]

Dietrich Louw You can download it here: orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/download.html There is the basic simulator add-or any ship is in: www.orbithangar.com/index.php To support and forum: www.orbiter-forum.com/index.php

[@robadams2140]

Do the main engines and boosters ignite at the same time as shown here?

[@andiverse-w7h]

Amazing design!

[@eddiekulp1241]

At least in the u.s. we retired out shuttles to museums to be seen by the public for many years , the Russian shuttles well enough said

[@ronaldaragonez2790]

Muy buen trabajo..... solo faltaron los dos turbo reactores a los costados. Pero está impresionante.

[@frankertolacci7542]

have you ever been close to the shuttle when it lands ????

[@tsman2709]

Excellent!!!! Very illustrative and informative!!! One question: What addon do you use to get that thick and long smoke trail ?e.g. @1:32

[@BollocksUtwat]

Oh yea, because it had so many more successful launches than the Buran. *Rolls Eyes*

[@sugimura135]

BSG music! awesome

[@web_physics]

I have written a series of research paper for mars mission using dual satellite remote sensing and space station around mars .

[@BollocksUtwat]

The Energia was a far superior system to the N1 and had promise. The Buran itself was a superior Shuttle. Frankly longterm re-usable spacecraft are the only real option. There is nothing sustainable about a disposable system that is 80% dead weight compared to the payload, and cannot be, at least in part, re-used. There will be no emergent space economy until we have efficient SSTOs.

[@luisantoniomarrega1120]

O ônibus espacial soviético era uma bela nave. Pena que devido aos gastos desistiram de proceguir! Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil

[@asasnat342]

can you please give me links to the mods? i can't find them.

[@fuckyorutube]

It's Energia rocket + Buran.

[@hamdruid4640]

great video

[@boyan7432]

what kind of orbiter do you use? i use 2010 but im just new

[@rseferino1]

And be destroyed by a falling roof of the warehouse!!!

[@PocknCG]

Hi rseferino1 How can I download the 3Dmodel ? I like your movie by orbiter!

[@Kurkulio]

Гордая надпись - СССР!

[@helljumpr5150]

They should've stuck with the N1 program.

[@rseferino1]

Yes, from Battlestar Galactica soundtrack

[@АндрейКарабицкий-ь9и]

Fantazi

[@Waffle4569]

What is your screen resolution?

[@Waffle4569]

I wish Orbiter 2010 had true anti aliasing. Increasing the screen resolution does help, but its not the same =/

[@jarekhnowo]

ENERGIA była w stanie wynieść 250 T on na orbitę.Znakomicie opracowana rakieta (Silniki) do wynoszenia m.in. BURANA.

[@Ziggy0120]

the buran looks like an exact replica of the american shuttle.

[@rseferino1]

What is the problem?

[@rocketgames123]

Do you have the 2012 version?

[@ExcelsiorOfTheVoid]

Name of this awesome song?

[@otavainen222]

4:30

[@marcelosp2976]

Ótimo Trabalho! Good job! (Brazil)

[@allgood6760]

Cool graphics 👍🇳🇿

[@Hannodb1961]

The thing that sucked about the collapse of the Soviet Union, is that it set the Russian Space program about 30 years back, and along with it, the competition intensive that allowed NASA to do some really amazing things. I bet if the USSR was still around, Obama would not have cancelled the Constellation program.

[@LucarioFan550]

3:59 LOL Nice touch

[@allenyeong3443]

Buran and Alantis/Discovery are almost the same, wonder who stole the technology

[@loetwiek]

on the outside they are very diffrent and the russian one is actually way better

[@SparrowNoblePoland]

The Soviets didn't even want to build a space Shuttle, they considered it a bad idea, but they decided to do it as a symmetric response to what they've seen a potential spacecraft kidnapping ship, which STS was in their eyes. The propulsion system on the Buran was completely different and safer though, the Energia rocket which provided the propulsion system could have been used to carry other kinds of loads, and, what's incredibly impressive for the time, and which STS couldn't do, was that Buran could pilot entirely itself, including the landing. No GPS, computer that is now 30 years old, and it missed the predicted point of contact with the landing strip just by 3 metres. Having more resources, they could have created a shuttle that would perform missions on its own and only take cosmonauts onboard when necessary. If STS was Buran, all the fatal accidents that happened, would have been avoided.

[@beoknez6145]

its like saying who stole the design of a boat that floats. The design is made because it must follow orbital and aero dynamics. However, the reason that i disagree with you is that both orbiters are vastly different, and the soviet version is far more advanced and fullfills the reusable option more than the us counterpart. it also didnt require refurbishment unlike the US orbiter and the Energia could be lauched independent without and orbiter...

[@flaxseedoil1000]

KGB must have got that from Bob Gerson's office too

[@robertaseremo3294]

Flaxseed Oil So you were suprise me i never been because the KGB have a mole on the NASA that why they have access even daw they have the copy of it still are were many defect they have to coorect it

[@SparrowNoblePoland]

The Soviets didn't want to build Buran in the first place. They only did it, because they saw STS as a military threat, as the design made no sense for them unless it would be used just to kidnap enemy spaceships. They build it only as a symmetric response, so obviously it looked kind of the same. They made several improvements although. First of all, Buran was lighter as it did not carry it's own trusters. Second of all, the Energia rocket that was supposed to serve as propulsion, could be shut down in case of failure, to save the ship from destruction. Energia alone could have been used also for other purposes. Finally, Buran had fully autonomous autopilot, that could take the shuttle to the orbit, navigate through whole flight, and land it on it's own. And it did.

[@rseferino1]

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2010

[@AliasUndercover]

It was better because it was built years later with copied plans. The US one was all 1970s tech, but the Soviet one was rebuilt with more modern stuff. Plus, it was too expensive to use. Why else would it have been left to rot.

[@Hannodb1961]

BTW: Russia has the largest surface area than any other country in the world, and of all the places where they could've stored it, they put it in a warehouse in an EARTH QUAKE ZONE?!?!? REALLY???

[@Osvaldo-Castro]

LINK for Buran Download???

[@sergeysergeev4699]

+Osvaldo Castro It's a russian doc. film, but I guess thou will understand mainly things

[@sergeysergeev4699]

+Osvaldo Castro there are too many doc. films about russian (soviet) space shuttle "Buran" (Blizzard) in the INET, also in english.

[@Osvaldo-Castro]

Sergey Sergeev Ok, Thank's!

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[@SuperRAPIT]

How many degrees i must have for Re-entry? And What I must do, if i want landing with Shuttle AB and Delta - glider. Because I have re-entry effect after collision on Earth. Sorry for my English. Because I can't English language very much.

[@djvasyl87]

Красиво сделали. Только много мелочей не учли !!!

[@MrCaptainDietrich]

and is there a way to land on the moon

[@SparrowNoblePoland]

@Michael Hunter Theoretically, if you had a nuclear tow-rocket on the orbit, it could take a shuttle to the moon's orbit. That is what STS was supposed to do, before the budget cuts and military changed the design completely.

[@arseniovera2090]

!! Mi apreciado !! Canal you tube . para que seas mas completo el documental !!! Que tal la idea de habilitae un canal de consulta. Saludos a todos .

[@One_Qwerty]

Красиво

[@faridabdullah9020]

Thanks nice

[@MAPKCuCT]

сам слетал сам сел и эт 31 год назад

[@dustmysticblackman2059]

WOW!

[@Hannodb1961]

The Buran was a better shuttle than what the Americans had. Unlike the Shuttle, the Buran could complete its mission entirely on Auto pilot. It is a darn shame that the Americans didn't buy this shuttle. Instead, it was allowed to rot in some warehouse!

[@Hannodb1961]

Yes, it was copied and improved, yes, it was with later technology, but that does not change the fact that it was a better vehicle. And it was left to rot because the soviet union collapsed, and a lot of things was left to rot due to instability and lack of finance. The demise of the Buran is not its own fault, but it is rather a victim of an unstable political system.

[@brucetharpe762]

what a unique shuttle.

[@Shane07752]

The Russians should of got on there shuttle program,around the time we got started ours.

[@Hannodb1961]

Criminal! Absolutely criminal!

[@faqihsurya714]

sit by buran

[@SuperRAPIT]

3:22 I have problem with this part... I'm i the universe 12 times.... :D

[@graham7402]

What problems, man?

[@ERISISBETTERTHANPLUTO2763]

I Will do buran challenge

[@jatashnkerpatel3170]

Rinku Raj

[@7656SWORD]

KSP

[@rseferino1]

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator, says the title .........