Buran

first and only operational spaceplane in the Soviet Buran programme
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Buran

Summary

Buran is a Buran-class orbiter[1]. Buran draws 1,509 Wikipedia views per month (buran_class_orbiter category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Buran's image is recorded as Buran on An-225 (Le Bourget 1989) (cropped).JPEG[3].
  • Buran's instance of is recorded as Buran-class orbiter[4].
  • Buran's instance of is recorded as former entity[5].
  • buran is named after Buran[6].
  • Buran's manufacturer is recorded as Tushino Machine-Building Plant[7].
  • Buran's developer is recorded as NPO Molniya[8].
  • Buran's part of is recorded as Buran programme[9].
  • Buran's part of is recorded as space mission[10].
  • Buran's Commons category is recorded as Buran (spacecraft)[11].
  • Buran's country of origin is recorded as Soviet Union[12].
  • Buran's first flight is recorded as +1988-11-15T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Buran's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 45.92749190335271, 'lon': 63.29749089687559}[14].
  • Buran's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f708n[15].
  • Buran's significant event is recorded as maiden flight[16].
  • Buran's significant event is recorded as destruction[17].
  • Buran's described at URL is recorded as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34tq4RNDRTQ[18].
  • Buran's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0246296[19].
  • Buran's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Buran-Russian-spacecraft[20].
  • Buran's orbits completed is recorded as {'amount': '+2'}[21].
  • Buran's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Буран'}[22].
  • Buran's serial number is recorded as 1К[23].
  • Buran's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1888732[24].
  • Buran's Quora topic ID is recorded as Buran-spacecraft[25].
  • Buran's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Satellite", "19637"][26].
  • Buran's schematic is recorded as 04 OK-1.01.png[27].

Why It Matters

Buran draws 1,509 Wikipedia views per month (buran_class_orbiter category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] Buran has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Buran is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Jonathan's Space Report. buran.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . nasaspaceflight.com. nasaspaceflight.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . russianspaceweb.com. russianspaceweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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