Kosmos-1517

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.

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orbital spaceflight, 

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1983 Kosmos-1517

1983-12-27T00:00:00Z

1983-12-27T00:00:00Z

rocket launch

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Frameless

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