LII/TMZ BOR-4 space shuttle development program

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I could be mistaken, but despite the numerous mentions of BOR-4 program (which led to BOR-5 and then Buran) I haven't found a single topic devoted to it, so here goes.

These pictures show the Kosmos-1445 sub-scale demonstrator being retrieved at sea after some flight test. The second one, however, looks more to me like the MiG Spiral... and since I'm no specialist in space research, I would appreciate some confirmation on that one.

Any information and additional pictures on this test vehicle would be most welcome!
 

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Dear Stargazer,


thanks for the precious hint (as always).
As follows my personal contribution about the matter.
 

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BOR-4 was designed at Gromov Flight Research Institute and built at Tushino Machine Building Plant (TMZ)
BOR-5 was built at EMZ (
Experimental Machine-Building Plant)

all BOR and Buran work was integrated under auspice of Molniya Design Bureau

An ultimate source on BORs is here
http://www.buran.ru/htm/bors.htm
 
can this help you ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBudfpeEgTc&feature=player_embedded
about Buran Program
at 4:50 begins the Bor-4 test and show the Soviet side of savage operation, what those Australia picture show...
 
Very nice video coverage, Michel. Thanks!

Wish I could understand Russian... The documentary talks about the Kosmos-1374 vehicle, while the pics I posted show the Kosmos-1445 vehicle. I guess the video coverage is of the latter, but in that case I haven't seen pics of the former.
 
Sad to se it like this ...

http://ru-cosmos.livejournal.com/1177554.html#cutid1

Deino
 
Deino said:


...Excellent albeit saddening find, sir. Reminds me of the first set of photos I saw of some of the miniatures used for "Lost in Space" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", in which years of neglect allowed them to deteriorate to the point that they were on the verge of disintegration. Especially in the case of the "Seaview", where the bondo and plywood had both dried out. There's been a lot of restoration over the years, but this particular article deserves some better care. Hell, even the "Galileo" from "Star Trek" got a total revamp before it was sent to JSC.


Wonder how well a Kickstarter would work on getting enough rubles together for such a restoration?

:OM:
 
THE SOVIET BOR-4 SPACEPLANES AND THEIR LEGACY

(BART HENDRICKX)

http://www.bis-space.com/belgium/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bor-41.pdf
 
A what if design of a full scale BOR.
 

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Another what if design.
 

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Michel Van said:
can this help you ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBudfpeEgTc&feature=player_embedded
about Buran Program
at 4:50 begins the Bor-4 test and show the Soviet side of savage operation, what those Australia picture show...

One engine off on the P-3?
 
I believe P-3s routinely did that (or even feathering two) to save fuel in the loiter.
 
Back in 2011, the register

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/04/x37b_ski/

reported that "Flightglobal reported that Oleg Ostapenko, a senior official of the Russian Space Forces, commented with respect to the X-37B's recent maiden flight that "something has been done [by us] along these lines"." He was alluding to the "Uragan" ("Hurricane") space interceptor project.

A.
 
Oh… BTW… has anybody seen a collectible embroidered soviet space patch of the "Uragan" project? I heard of its existence a (very) long time ago but never saw anything like matching this tell-tale description…

A.
 
antigravite said:
Oh… BTW… has anybody seen a collectible embroidered soviet space patch of the "Uragan" project? I heard of its existence a (very) long time ago but never saw anything like matching this tell-tale description…

A.

As far I know Uragan is not a real project. It is a sort of modern legend arose after the fall of USSR.
The only real military Soviet spaceplane was the original 50/50 Spiral project.
 
Early speculation on BOR, from Bill Gunston's Warplanes Of The Future (1985).
 

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Another what if design.
I think that was a guess from a German publication—but with engines on Energia itself…perhaps each orbiter could have a different shape without the aft boat-tail throwing things off. One orbiter a Faget wing…maybe a wave rider with no cargo bay, etc.
 

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