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Kosmos 482 falls to Earth: lost Soviet Venus probe finally comes home
Kosmos 482, a Soviet probe launched in 1972, recently crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The mission to Venus failed due to a ...
Uncontrolled Soviet Probe Crashes to Earth, Hitting Unknown Location
A failed Venus mission fell from the sky over the weekend after aimlessly orbiting Earth for the past 53 years. Various ...
Soviet-era Venus mission to reenter in May
We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...
Kosmos 482 is hurtling towards Earth and there’s a non-zero chance the Venus probe will hit WA on Saturday
Nearly 46 years after the Skylab space station caused a sonic boom as it blazed a kaleidoscopic trail across the WA sky, ...
How To Track Soviet Satellite As It Plummets to Earth
A derelict Soviet-era spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 is set to hurtle back toward Earth after more than five decades in orbit ...
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Doomed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 could hit Earth tonight. Here's when.
The Kosmos 482 probe was built and launched in 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera mission to explore Venus ... for missions to have "controlled end-of-life plans for large objects" and ...