BOR-4
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bor-4-207-7920088
title:
BOR-4
text:
The BOR-4 flight vehicle is a scaled (1:2) prototype of the Soviet Spiral VTHL spaceplane. An uncrewed, subscale spacecraft, its purpose was to test the heatshield tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon for the Buran space shuttle, then under development. Several of them were built and flown between 1982 and 1984 from the Kapustin Yar launch site at speeds of up to Mach 25, using K65-RB5 variant of Kosmos-3M launch vehicle. After reentry, they were designed to parachute to an ocean splashdown for re
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Soviet spaceplane (1980-1984)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOR-4
date created:
2006-08-04T16:38:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T02:35:26Z
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13
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