The LKS Spaceplane was being developed in the late 1970's by the Chelomei OKB. It was a competitor to Russia's Buran Space Shuttle. It was going to be launched by a derivative of the Proton Rocket.
LKS spaceplane would have located forward of an expendable payload section. LKS standed for (“Light Space Ship”. Unfortunately it was not fully developed.
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The Soviet Air Force in the late 1950s and 1960s funded several spaceplane programs such as the PKA (“Gliding Space Apparatus”), the M-48, the Raketoplan, Kosmoplan, Spiral, and the LKS (“Light Space Ship”). None of these ever made it into space.
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