47th independent Engineering & Test Unit
47-я отдельная инженерно-испытательная часть
Military Unit: 12471
Activated 2.11.66 in Leninsk, Kzyl-Orda Oblast, under the
1th Test
Department, Baikonur Test Center (5th NIIP).
The units main tasks were test and development of the N-1
launcher, and later the Energiya/Buran system.
From 1.67 under the
6th Test
Department.
Disbanded 1995.
US designation: Baikonur Test Center - Launch Complex J (two
Type I pads)
Baikonur Test Center - Site 110 (45 57 52N, 63 18 30E)
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two N-1 pads ("Raskat") - PU37 (left) built 1964-1969 - PU38
(right) built 1964-1967
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N-1: PU37 - 2 launches (27.6.71, 23.11.71); PU38 - 2
launches 21.2.69, 3.7.69
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PU38 under repair 12.69-1972, after launch failure 3.7.69
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converted to the Energiya-Buran system 1978-1988
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11F35: one launch from PU37 15.11.88
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in storage from 1995
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1996 transferred to Niikhimmash (All-Union Scientific
Research & Design Institute of Chemical Machinery)
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Cryogenic Fuel Storage Facility - 45 58 11N, 63 18 39E
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picture (1966)
Baikonur Test Center - Site 112 (45 55 36N, 63 18 08E)
- Support/technical area for Site 110
- launcher/erector integration and test building (MIK-112) built 1963-1966
for the N-1, and later the Energiya-Buran complex (45 55 40N, 63 17 54E)
Baikonur Test Center - Site 112A (45 59 20N, 63 19 00E)
- Support/technical Area for Site 100
- launcher/spacecraft assembly & integration (MIK-112A) for the N-1
launcher and later Energiya-Buran - built 1966-1967 (45 56 26N, 63 19 06E)
- service station 11G131 for the N-1 launcher
Baikonur Test Center - Site 113 (45 54 59N, 63 16 55E)
Baikonur Test Center - Site 250 (46 00 32N, 63 18 13E)
- one 11K25 pad - built 1979-1985
- one launch 15.5.87 with the 11K25 (Energiya)
- preserved
Baikonur Test Center - Site 250A (45 59 15N, 63 16 19E)
- launch command center
- boiler area, storage and unloading zone
Baikonur Test Center - Site 251 (46 03 08N, 63 14 53E)
- airfield "Yubileynyy" - support of the Buran programme
- built 10.78-1.82
- training with various Buran jet-powered shuttles
- shuttle Buran landed 15.11.88 after orbital flight
Baikonur Test Center - Site 252 (46 04 49N, 63 14 17E)
- housing area for construction workers on the Energiya/Buran complex
- dismantled
Baikonur Test Center - Site 253 (45 55 40N, 63 18 58E)
- OKI-OK "Buran" - ground fire complex for the Buran orbiter - engine test
area
- dismantled
Baikonur Test Center - Site 254 (45 55 18N, 63 18 04E)
- Buran orbiter assembly & integration building (MIK)
