BOR-5

BOR-5
BOR-5 No. 502 at the Central Air Force Museum in Russia
Role	Unmanned 1:8 scale re-entry test vehicle
National origin	Soviet Union
First flight	5 June 1984
Number built	5

The BOR-5 (БОР-5 Russian: Беспилотный Орбитальный Ракетоплан 5, Bespilotnyi Orbital'nyi Raketoplan 5, "Unpiloted Orbital Rocketplane 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.

Flights

BOR-5 No. 505 at the Technik Museum Speyer in Germany

Six flights were made:^[1][2]

4 July 1984

aborted

5 June 1984

model 501

17 April 1985

model 502

27 December 1986

model 503

27 August 1984

model 504

22 June 1988

model 505

Current locations

Two survivors of the BOR-5 tests are known to exist:^[3]

• BOR-5 No. 502 - Central Air Force Museum, Monino, Russia
• BOR-5 No. 505 - Technik Museum Speyer, Speyer, Germany

References

1. http://www.buran-energia.com/bor/bor-carac.php
2. http://www.kosmonavtika.com/vaisseaux/bor/hist/hist.html
3. http://www.kosmonavtika.com/vaisseaux/bor/visite/visite.html

External links

• BOR family page at Buran-Energia.com