Energia (rocket)

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Energia (Russian: Энергия, romanized: Energiya, lit. 'Energy'; GRAU: 11K25, Sheldon: K-1, DoD: SL-17) was a 1980s super-heavy lift launch vehicle. It was designed by NPO Energia of the Soviet Union as part of the Buran programme for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft. The Energia used four strap-on boosters, each powered by a four-chamber RD-170 engine burning kerosene/LOX, and a central core stage with four single-chamber RD-0120 (11D122) engines fueled by liquid hydrogen/LOX. The Energia vehicle had two functionally different operational variants: Energia-Buran, in which a Buran-class orbiter was the payload and performed the final orbital insertion, and Buran-T, in which the payload was carried in a side-mounted cargo container and final insertion was performed either by the payload, an upper stage, or a space tug integrated into the container. During the first launch of the Energia, the vehicle carried the Polyus spacecraft in place of the cargo container; the operational...

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