TomTom WORK tracks Russian Spacecraft
Date: Thursday, April 10 @ 20:21:32 UTC
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Not as mad as it sounds! Buran was Russia's answer to the US Space Shuttle, so similar in fact that it could almost have been copied, surely not! In truth it was a better design, with greater lift capability but lack of funding meant it never made it into service outside of test flights within the atmosphere using temporarily fitted jet engine pods.
The only surviving spacecraft, Buran 02, a 100 ton behemoth, is making its way to the Technik Museum Speyer near Frankfurt and TomTom WORK is being used to track its progress Heavy haulage company Spedition Kuebler GmbH is transporting the spacecraft using a mixture of barge and heavy haulage vehicles and you can track its progress in real time on line here.
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