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NPG
Part of 37K
Russian manned space station. Cancelled 1986. A later version of the 37K design for military experiments, the NPG Retained Payload, would be mounted in the payload bay of Buran and connected to the orbiter's cockpit area by an access tunnel.

AKA: 17F32. Status: Cancelled 1986. Gross mass: 7,150 kg (15,760 lb). Height: 5.10 m (16.70 ft). Span: 4.20 m (13.70 ft).

Development of a new kind of Soviet space station module, designated 37K, was authorized on 17 September 1979. The basic 37K design consisted of a 4.2 m diameter pressurized cylinder with a docking port at the forward end. It was not equipped with its own propulsion system. The 37KB modules were to be standard on the early Buran flights. A later version of the design for military experiments, the NPG Retained Payload, would be mounted in the payload bay of Buran and connected to the orbiter's cockpit area by an access tunnel. Work on the 37KB modules was finally stopped completely when further Buran funding was ended in 1993.

The original authorization was for a total of eight 37K's of various configurations:

Habitable Volume: 37.00 m3.



Family: Soviet Space Stations, Space station, Space station orbit. Country: Russia. Launch Vehicles: Energia. Agency: Chelomei bureau.

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