Quick question about L2, before I get the annual subsription Does it contain information on other space programs and agencies (Jaxa, RSA, ESA?), especially information on the Buran Shuttle?
Oh yes
It's mainly US vehicles (Shuttle, Constellation, but.....)
On Buran, we've got four exclusive videos (in Russian, found in some dusty locker, converted from VHS and uploaded, about a gigabytes worth)...really are wonderful videos.
Buran Movie: The Transportation of Buran
Buran Movie: The Unmanned Flight
Buran Movie: BTS002 Test Flights (OK-GLI).
Buran Movie: Antonov An-225 Mria and Buran
And other items like images.
We've got Soyuz manuals, emergency proceedures, Progress Cargo Manifests etc.
Fair bit of ESA material. A good example being about 15 documents on the IVX development (to be launched on Vega).
Lots of ATV content, such as the FRR presentations for the debut trip to the ISS, construction images etc.
JAXA example, we've got the HTV overview document (about 600 pages or something crazy, will have to look at that again).
Sea Launch - we've got about 200 exclusive images of the failure they had a while back.
And we've got user guides, manuals, and payload planner documents for something like 50 vehicles (we think it's almost all of them, includes all the Chinese launchers).
You literally have to go through the sections and it can take a long, long time, but if you start at the submenu 'tag cloud' you can go through L2 by subject, such as "Buran" which will take you to a menu of all the Buran content. And if you get stuck, contact me and I'll link you up to where you need to be.
Remember to pay 89.99 - not 99.99 - if you go for the one year term, as per SSM2007 association