OK-GLI
The OK-GLI (Russian: Орбитальный корабль для горизонтальных лётных испытаний, ОК-ГЛИ, romanized: Orbital'nyy korabl' dlya gorizontal'nykh lotnykh ispytaniy, lit. 'Orbital ship for horizontal flight tests'), also known as Buran Analog BTS-02 (Russian: БТС-02, Большой транспортный самолёт второй, romanized: bolshoi transportny samolyot vtoroi, lit. 'big transport aircraft, the second'), was a test vehicle ("Buran aerodynamic analogue") in the Buran programme. It was constructed in 1984, and was used for 25 test flights between 1985 and 1988 before being retired. It is now an exhibit at the Technik Museum Speyer in Germany.
Atmospheric Buran testbed currently on display in Technik Museum Speyer | |
| Construction number | OK-0.02 |
|---|---|
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Status | At the Technik Museum Speyer, Germany |
| First flight | Flight 1 10 November 1985 |
| Last flight | Flight 25 15 April 1988 |
| No. of missions | 25 test flights |
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