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Failed Soviet Venus probe is falling back to Earth: When, where Cosmos 482 could land
The probe known as Cosmos 482 was meant to eventually sputter out of life on the scorching surface of Venus after gathering some intel. Instead, an engine malfunction prevented the spacecraft from getting very far – dooming Cosmos 482 to five decades of ...
Space debris re-enters Earth every day. Most burn up in the atmosphere. But Russia's 1972 failed Venera mission probe Cosmos 482 is different.
Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...
But if the Cosmos 482 object is indeed a Soviet reentry capsule, it would be equipped with a substantial heat shield, meaning it “might well survive Earth atmosphere entry and hit the ground ...
To find out more about the story we have to travel back to the early 1970s, and Kosmos-482. It was a failed Soviet Venera mission, and since its lander was heavily over-engineered to survive entry ...
The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 (Cosmos 482) spacecraft is crashing to Earth within the next 40 hours, and the aerospace ...
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