BOR-5
Sign in to saveAlso known as Unpiloted Orbital Rocketplane 5
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Buran programme
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Follows
- BOR-4
- Mass
- 1450
- Manufacturer
- NPO Molniya
- Image
- BOR-5 Oberseite.JPG
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- Commons category
- BOR-5
- first flight
- 1984-06-05
- start point
- Kapustin Yar
- space launch vehicle
- Kosmos-3M
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BOR-5” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.