BOR-5

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.

Flights

Six flights were made:

4 July 1984 - aborted
5 June 1984 - No. 501
17 April 1985 - No. 502
27 December 1986 - No. 503
27 August 1984 - No. 504
22 June 1988 - No. 505

Current locations

Two survivors of the BOR-5 tests are known to exist:

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