BOR-5
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- 1450
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- BOR-5 Oberseite.JPG
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- BOR-5
- first flight
- 1984-06-05
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The BOR-5 () is a 1:8 sized test flight vehicle, used to study the main aerodynamic, thermal, acoustic and stability characteristics of the Buran. It follows upon the BOR-4 reentry test vehicle.
It was put into a suborbital trajectory by a K65M-RB5 rocket launched from Kapustin Yar, near Volga, towards Lake Balkhash at the altitude of about 100 km with velocities from 4000 to 7300 kilometers per second.
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RLV-Technology Demonstration Programme
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Soviet Union
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Lake Balkhash
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Mir
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Antonov An-225 Mriya
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Tupolev
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Buran
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X-15
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Boeing X-37
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sub-orbital spaceflight
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Space Shuttle program
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Kapustin Yar
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