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The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 could crash to Earth overnight tonight after more than 50 years in the wrong orbit.
Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer able to resist gravity’s ...
The Soviet craft has been floating around in space after it was launched in 1972. Now it is expected to make an "uncontrolled ...
The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...
A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its ...
The spacecraft was meant to go to Venus, but it never made it to the planet and is now expected to fall back to Earth.
Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second ...
Kosmos 482, which suffered a rocket malfunction when launched in 1972, is thought to have splashed down in the Indian Ocean, ...
The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...
The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday ...
Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after being stuck in orbit for more than half a century, the European Space Agency said.
The remaining part of a Soviet-era spacecraft returned to Earth on Saturday 53 years since its failed mission to Venus. It is ...