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    After several previous test flights, the official Buran was built. The first one was numbered 1.01. It was the only space shuttle in the former Soviet Union that had carried out space flight in autopilot mode. However, it had not flown since its last flight.  It has been 7 years. During this period, due to poor maintenance, it has completely lost the chance to fly again.

    The second aircraft, project number 1.02, was originally planned to be used to implement the second space flight in autopilot mode and dock with the Mir space station.  Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it was almost completed. Although it had not been flown, due to maintenance problems, although it could be repaired and then flown into the sky, it was very risky.

    Therefore, the final outcome of these two aircraft is probably the fate of entering the exhibition hall.

    The Iraqi side is interested in two aircraft with project numbers 2.01 and 2.02. The first aircraft has completed half of the construction period, but the internal electronic equipment has not been completed, while the second aircraft is only 100% completed.  Fifteen.

    Iraq is most satisfied with these two aircraft. In the past few years, electronic technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and Iraq can just use these technologies to make improvements.

    Since all the designers are almost complete, after Iraq's funds are in place, follow-up work begins at the Arab Space Company in the desert of southern Iraq. At the same time, a large thrust similar to the Energy launch vehicle  Rockets also began to be assembled in the factory.

    After several years of hard work, the first full-scale space shuttle was finally born at the Arab Space Company in Iraq.

    Today is its first test launch.

    According to the characteristics of the Soviet Union, the transfer process is horizontal. Therefore, after the transfer is completed, a series of tests are required.

    Journalists from many countries reported on this test flight. This test flight marks that Iraq has become the third country to master manned aircraft after the United States and Russia. This is a huge progress.

    This is still an unmanned flight. From unmanned to manned, it will take Iraq at least five years. The first batch of Iraqi astronauts are being trained in Kazakhstan. Iraq's manned space project requires a long process.

    Night gradually fell, and the space shuttle on the launch pad stood quietly.

    Compared with the American space shuttle, this Buran has a more reasonable design. The American space shuttle has three main engines at the tail. When entering orbit, the main engine and the additional engine need to work together, but the Buran does not have one.  The main engine is like a load hung on the side of the Energy rocket, which greatly reduces the weight of the space shuttle into orbit, while freeing up space for the installation of a small maneuvering flight engine and a deceleration brake parachute.  (Although from the outside, they all hang on a large cylinder, the thing on the American space shuttle is just a huge fuel tank, while the Soviet one is just a real rocket. This  That¡¯s the difference.) Moreover, safety needs to be greatly improved. The space shuttle is said to be reusable many times. However, the U.S. space shuttle is far from reaching the claimed number of times. Among them, the engine that has been used many times is one that causes constant failures.  The culprit.  The Buran does not have this problem at all. However, it is equipped with a small adjustment engine at the tail. In this way, when the Buran lands, it can use the small engine at the tail to perform powered maneuvering flight and land safely and accurately on the narrow runway.  Once the landing attitude is not good, the space shuttle can be raised for a second landing, thus improving reliability.  The deceleration brake parachute at the tail automatically pops up when the speed slows down to 50 kilometers/hour during the landing roll, allowing the space shuttle to stop within a short distance.

    This project has actually matured during the Soviet period, and the only thing that needs to continue is the test flight.

    This spacecraft, which was finally built in Iraq, is already in full condition, including the life support system on it, including the two dummies installed on it. Iraq stood on the shoulders of the Soviet Union and stood very tall.  .

    "The Buran needs to be carried by the Energy rocket to fly into the sky. Compared with the space shuttle, the Energy rocket is probably no less significant to Iraq than the space shuttle.

    It is a huge project to send a space shuttle of more than 100 tons into space. The Energy rocket, which is specially researched for the launch of this kind of space shuttle, has been developed in the Soviet Union for decades.

    This history begins with the Soviet Union¡¯s failed moon landing plan. The Soviet moon landing failed because there was no mature rocket engine to use. After learning from the painful experience, the development of the Energy rocket began.

    This kind of rocket adopted a modular design from the beginning, and through matching, it can achieve different payloads.Payload requirements, for example, send a payload of 200 tons to low-Earth orbit, send a payload of 30 tons directly to the moon, or send it to Mars.

    Its auxiliary thruster uses the advanced liquid oxygen kerosene engine RD-170. In later generations, the Zenith series launch vehicles improved by its booster have been flying, with a thrust of up to  740 tons is ten times that of the Long March series rocket engine. Therefore, the Zenith series rocket only needs one such engine to fly.

    ¡°Moreover, the liquid oxygen kerosene engine does not cause any pollution and is the most ideal rocket engine. In this regard, the former Soviet Union is far ahead.

    ??The main thruster is a liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engine with a total mass of 800 tons.

    The Soviet Union spent decades and nearly 50 billion rubles to finally develop a launch vehicle that far surpassed the Saturn-5. Unfortunately, in later generations, such an advanced launch vehicle was only used twice.  One of the test flights was a flight with the Buran space shuttle.

    It was not the right time for such a rocket. In the end, only the subsystem, that is, the booster became the Zenith rocket, was still commercially launched. Apart from the main thruster engine for sale, this kind of rocket also ended without any problems.

    With the space shuttle, Iraq must also have the Energia rocket. However, for such a more expensive project, Qusay was not willing to spend more money. He just hired Cuba, the chief designer of the Energia rocket, to spend a lot of money.  Nov and a large number of other technicians then purchased various important parts, including two important engines, from the Southern Machinery Manufacturing Factory and other places, and then assembled them in Iraq.

    Various industrial processing equipment in Iraq have reached a certain level, and a large number of technicians from the Southern Machinery Manufacturing Factory have been hired. They are not copying rockets like this, but completely re-manufacturing them.  Although important engines still need to be imported, Iraq will eventually achieve the goal of manufacturing such advanced engines on its own.

    This is a long process, but as long as there are these technical personnel, Qusay believes that great progress in Iraq's aerospace engineering can be achieved.

    The implementation of these projects has driven technological progress in materials, machinery, electronics, ecology and other aspects in Iraq, spurred the development of many high-tech technologies, transformed into progress in all aspects of civilian projects, and ultimately transformed into a new economy.  growth point.

    March 18, 1995, 8:30 pm.

    In the launch command hall located five kilometers away from the launch pad, the atmosphere at the scene was serious.  A stiff voice sounded inside the launch pad, thirty minutes to prepare!

    As the countdown begins, the launch has entered an irreversible process, and fuel has been injected into the launch box.

    The launch pad on the launch pad has begun to slowly open to both sides. The Energy rocket and the Buran space shuttle stand quietly on the launch pad.

    This is the last moment before it takes off.

    During the ten-minute countdown, the entire launch system began to enter self-test.

    "In the launch hall, there are both Iraqi rocket experts and a large number of rocket experts from the former Soviet Union, including the main space shuttle developers. They are operating carefully in their fields.

    Iraq has made great progress in electronic technology. The supercomputer in the launch hall was manufactured by Iraq using many self-produced CPU chips. Its computing speed has exceeded that of the Baikonur Space Center.  system host.

    When the countdown was eight seconds, thick smoke was billowing from the launch pad, and the main engine of the Energy rocket had been successfully ignited.  The scene was shaken violently, and the whole thing, which weighed several thousand tons, began to get excited.

    When the countdown reached zero seconds, the four boosters tied to the main body of the rocket began to ignite. The rocket drove the more than 100-ton Buran space shuttle away from the launch pad and straight into the sky.

    The scene was filled with joy and the launch was a success!

    The next step is to accurately enter the orbit!

    One hundred and fifty seconds after launch, the booster rocket completes combustion and separates from the main rocket.

    Four hundred and eighty seconds after launch, the Energy rocket gloriously completed its mission, sending the space shuttle to an altitude of 250 kilometers and about to enter orbit.

    Then, the main rocket fell off, and the Buran started its own maneuvering engine, adjusted its orbit, and accurately entered a 260-kilometer circular orbit.

    The ocean survey ship in the Pacific Ocean accurately captured the space shuttle and accurately entered orbit!

    The disintegration of the Soviet Union led to the death of many projects, and some of them have taken root and sprouted again in foreign lands.Plenty of fruits have been produced.

    Relying on the strong national strength brought by economic development and concentrating the power of the Arab world, Iraq has reached the forefront of the world in the high-tech aerospace field.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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