Chelomey / NPO Mashinostroyeniya LKS

[boxkite]

Maybe Chelomei’s space interceptor ... ?

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lks.htm

 

[Orionblamblam]

Forgot about that one. Never have seen decent images of it, though.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

http://www.npomash.ru/npom/en/contacts.htm

Might be worth contacting NPO Mash (Chelomei) direct?

 

[Matej]

Forgot about that one. Never have seen decent images of it, though.

 

[flateric]

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[flateric]

'The Chelomei alternative to Buran' by Giuseppe De Chiara
https://yadi.sk/i/bo7rsE12nxWN7

 

[flateric]

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[XP67_Moonbat]

Аккуратный!

 

[Michel Van]

here Anatoly Zak article about LKS

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/lks.html

 

[flateric]

LKS/UR-500 stack model
Photos (c) NPOMash, Yevgeny Yerokhin and Alexander Karpenko

 

[flateric]

LKS full-scale mockup

 

[Vladimir]

Thanks, flateric
more good info here: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29809.0

 

[Orionblamblam]

"Shock option" variant, seemed to be equipped with five RV's.

http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=3426

 

[Michel Van]

nice artwork

 

[archipeppe]

Here there are my artworks dedicated to the LKS spaceplane.

 

[Archibald]

Geez, what a beauty ! Beautiful job, really.

 

[archipeppe]

Geez, what a beauty ! Beautiful job, really.

Thank you Archibald.

 

[flateric]

restored LKS mockup now resides in local space museum at Black Sea shore at Arkhipo-Osipovka
https://museum-cosmos.ru/

 

[archipeppe]

Cooool!!
Documents reported that it was destroyed shortly after the project's demise,
So Vladimir Nikolaevič managed to make it survive after all.

 

[flateric]

only nose section is original here
now it's mostly consists of styrofoam from local Leroy Merlin

 

[archipeppe]

only nose section is original here
now it's mostly consists of styrofoam from local Leroy Merlin

Indeed a real good job.

 

[flateric]

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[flateric]

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[thatdronedude]

 

[flateric]

View: https://youtu.be/hnHkpBSiCfE?si=9Rq-THBEFFaNat4t

 

[Dmitry V.]

LKS