{"id":1706,"date":"2012-05-15T14:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2012-05-15T14:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:53:58","slug":"25th-anniversary-of-the-energias-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/25th-anniversary-of-the-energias-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"25th anniversary of the Energia&#8217;s flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'Energia-Polyus','600','637');return false\" href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Energia_Polyus.jpg\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Energia-Polyus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/reflect_v3.php?cache=1&amp;img=\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/.thumbs\/.Energia_Polyus.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Energia-Polyus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first <a title=\"Energia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/energia\/energia-desc.php\" target=\"_blank\">Energia<\/a>&#8216;s flight on May 15, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>It is at 21h30 (Moscow time) that the rocket was launched for the first time with the <a title=\"Polious\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/polious\/polious-desc.php\" target=\"_blank\">Polious<\/a> space combat station as a payload. The launch went fine, despite a trouble during take off, but a malfunction in the orientation system didn&#8217;t allowed it to reach it&#8217;s orbit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Polyus's lift off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.net\/img\/polious-decollage.gif\" alt=\"Polyus, star wars, MIR-2, USSR\" width=\"200px\" height=\"164px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second and last launch of Energia took place one year later with <a title=\"Buran\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/bourane-buran\/bourane-desc.php\" target=\"_blank\">Buran<\/a> on November 15, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Energia was a versatile, adjustable, very powerful (100t in low earth orbit) and reliable (2 launch and 2 success) rocket, the lack of large scale projects and the collapse of the USSR buried it. Only its boosters made from <a title=\"Zenit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/energia\/zenith-zenit-desc.php\" target=\"_blank\">Zenit<\/a> launcher are still used today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first Energia&#8216;s flight on May 15, 1987. It is at 21h30 (Moscow time) that the rocket was launched for the first time with the Polious space combat station as a payload. The launch went fine, despite a trouble during take off, but a malfunction in the orientation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bourane","category-energia","category-polyus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buran-energia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}