A failed Soviet Venus lander's long space odyssey has come to an end. The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred at ...

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft was part of the USSR’s Venera program, a series of probes that were developed to research the planet Venus. Ten of those missions successfully landed on the hot ...

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t yet know where it may come down. By Nadia Drake A robotic Soviet ...

But the spacecraft never made it to Venus. Instead, the capsule — dubbed Kosmos-482 — began spiraling back towards Earth. Researchers now say it's expected to land somewhere on the planet this ...

All of them re-entered Earth’s atmosphere the same year they were launched – except Kosmos 482, which has stayed aloft for 53 more years. As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left ...

A defunct Soviet Kosmos 482 Venus lander from 1972 is predicted to crash into Earth's atmosphere around May 10, 2025. Learn why this tough capsule might survive reentry.

Cosmos 482 – also referred to as Kosmos 482 – is believed to be a Soviet ... identical atmospheric landers bound for the planet of Venus on a mission to make scientific measurements of its ...

An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, after 53 years stuck in orbit, experts say. In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled ...

Launched in March 1972 by the USSR, the Kosmos 482 probe was dispatched to gather data from Venus’ inhospitable surface, Livescience reported. However, due to a malfunction with one of the ...