Buran's only spaceflight: the uncrewed Soviet shuttle orbiter flew two orbits atop an Energia rocket from Baikonur amid a snowstorm, then made a fully automated landing back at the cosmodrome, a first for any winged spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 79.4 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Energiya/Buran flight
- Date and time
- 15 November 1988, 03:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Energiya/Buran
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 110/37 (110L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1988-100
- Launches in 1988
- 105th of 121
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