📊 Analysis
Statistics & insights on rockets and organizations — technology, history, numbers.
Energiya/Buran
RetiredEnergia
Energia (Russian: Энергия, Energiya, "Energy") (GRAU 11K25) was a Soviet rocket that was designed by NPO Energia to serve as a heavy-lift partially recoverable launch system for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft.
Key figures
Total launches
1
Successes
1
Failures
0
Success rate
100.0 %
Success streak
1
Maiden flight
Nov 15, 1988
Reusable
Yes
Planned launches
0
Energiya family total
2 launches · 1 successes · 1 failures (2 variants)
🧐 Data check
Automatic plausibility checks — anomalies are surfaced transparently here:
- ℹ️The figures above apply only to the “Energiya/Buran” variant. The Launch Library counts each variant separately — the Energiya family totals 2 launches across 2 variants.
Technology
Length
97 m
Diameter
17.65 m
Launch mass
2,629 t
Liftoff thrust
35,301 kN
Stages
3
LEO (low Earth orbit)
90,400 kg
GEO (geostationary)
20,000 kg
Launches per year
of which in our database: 1
Successes Failures Other/planned
History & events
Sources
- Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs)
- Wikipedia