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Predecessor of Shuttle and Buran
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 was a manned test vehicle to explore low-speed handling and landing. It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane.
BOR [Becpilotniye Orbitalniye Raketoplan]
The BOR-4 flight vehicle is the scaled (1:2) copy of the SPIRAL. It has a tilting wing as well as the SPIRAL.
Missions:
1980 Dec. 5 - The model BOR-4c, conducted its first suborbital flight in the direction of Lake Balkhash, on top of the K65M-RB5 (Kosmos-3) rocket to test a vehicle for future orbital missions.
1982 June 4 - A BOR-4 No. 404, was launched into orbit and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. It was announced under name Kosmos-1374.
1983 March 16 - A BOR-4 No. 403, was launched into orbit and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. It was announced under name Kosmos-1445. The recovery of the spacecraft by the Soviet Navy vessel was observed and photographed by a crew of an Australian military plane. The pictures of the top-secret recovery operation were then published around the world, prompting the secrecy-conscious Soviet authorities to re-schedule future missions to conclude in the Black Sea.
1983 Dec. 27 - A BOR-4 No. 405, a model of the Spiral space plane was launched into orbit and splashed down in the Black Sea instead of the Indian Ocean to maintain secrecy around the project. It was announced as Kosmos-1517.
1984 December 19 - A BOR-4 went orbital but splashed down into the Black Sea to the west of the Crimea peninsula. It's name was Kosmos-1614
Russian anthem sung by the State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Felix Korobov, and joint choir of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre. [Source http://www.hymn.ru/index-en.html ]
Link : buran-energia.com/spiral/spiral-project-desc.php
Link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_spaceplane
Link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOR-4
Link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleb_Lozino-Lozinskiy
Link : youtube.com/watch?v=fnL7CH9RnS4
Link : http://www.buran.ru/htm/molniya4.htm
Link : buran-energia.com
Predecessor of Shuttle and Buran
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 was a manned test vehicle to explore low-speed handling and landing. It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane.
BOR [Becpilotniye Orbitalniye Raketoplan]
The BOR-4 flight vehicle is the scaled (1:2) copy of the SPIRAL. It has a tilting wing as well as the SPIRAL.
Missions:
1980 Dec. 5 - The model BOR-4c, conducted its first suborbital flight in the direction of Lake Balkhash, on top of the K65M-RB5 (Kosmos-3) rocket to test a vehicle for future orbital missions.
1982 June 4 - A BOR-4 No. 404, was launched into orbit and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. It was announced under name Kosmos-1374.
1983 March 16 - A BOR-4 No. 403, was launched into orbit and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. It was announced under name Kosmos-1445. The recovery of the spacecraft by the Soviet Navy vessel was observed and photographed by a crew of an Australian military plane. The pictures of the top-secret recovery operation were then published around the world, prompting the secrecy-conscious Soviet authorities to re-schedule future missions to conclude in the Black Sea.
1983 Dec. 27 - A BOR-4 No. 405, a model of the Spiral space plane was launched into orbit and splashed down in the Black Sea instead of the Indian Ocean to maintain secrecy around the project. It was announced as Kosmos-1517.
1984 December 19 - A BOR-4 went orbital but splashed down into the Black Sea to the west of the Crimea peninsula. It's name was Kosmos-1614
Russian anthem sung by the State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Felix Korobov, and joint choir of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre. [Source http://www.hymn.ru/index-en.html ]
Link : buran-energia.com/spiral/spiral-project-desc.php
Link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_spaceplane
Link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOR-4
Link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleb_Lozino-Lozinskiy
Link : youtube.com/watch?v=fnL7CH9RnS4
Link : http://www.buran.ru/htm/molniya4.htm
Link : buran-energia.com
![Some CW signals on 20 meters from WebSDR University of Twente [ 7 0kt 2012 ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y-roND40TFE/mqdefault.jpg "Some CW signals on 20 meters from WebSDR University of Twente [ 7 0kt 2012 ]
Some video and audio from the WebSDR University of Twente, one of the best WebSDRs in the world :-)
Listen between 0.000 and 29.160 MHz to radiostations, hamradio, telex, morse and lots more !
A contest going on so lots of TEST de .....
Res = 854x114 widescreen
Link : http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ [ Here is the WebSDR ]
Link : http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php [ WA7BNM Contest Calendar ]")
![Tour through the ISS with André Kuipers [in Dutch]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zxJW-vawJBQ/mqdefault.jpg "Tour through the ISS with André Kuipers [in Dutch]
In this 70 minutes tour we take a visit through the entire ISS,
We start in the back of the ISS and work our way to the front.
We get a nice view how they live, where they eat and sleep.
No space is wasted and supplies are everywhere.
You also see the place André used for his hamradiostation PI9ISS.
André Kuipers was member of Expedition 31 and returned from the ISS on sunday july 1st 2012 at 10:14 CEST back to Earth after 191 days in space.
Camera : Joe Acaba [Thanks for the info Paul, great]
Link : http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/index.html
Link : http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/isslivestream.asx [LIVE stream from the ISS]
Link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_31")
