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The Berlin Wall had come down just a year after its first flight in 1988, and the Soviet Defense Ministry was _a href="http://lqeygaqiw.com"_suledndy_/a_ more preoccupied with resettling thousands of troops returning from Eastern Europe than with building a new launch system. The collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 sealed the fate of the Energia-Buran system. The Russian economy of 1992 could not sustain it.The rocket technology developed for Energia-Buran has been put to use in other launchers. A mighty RD-170 engine, originally developed for the first stage of Energia, today powers the Ukrainian Zenit rocket.
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