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Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 expected to re-enter Earth after 53 years in orbit
The Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482, stranded in Earth orbit since 1972, is expected to re-enter the atmosphere Saturday, but ...
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Soviet-Era Spacecraft Kosmos 482 Could Crash in Indonesian Territory, BRIN Says
Kosmos 482 itself is part of the Soviet Union's Venus exploration program known as Venera. This spacecraft weighs about 1.2 ...
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Soviet-era spacecraft once bound for Venus expected to crash to Earth in May
The 1,100-pound module, known as Kosmos 482, was part of a craft initially bound for Venus when it launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the then-Soviet Union in March 1972, NASA said in a ...
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, ...
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Kosmos 482: Soviet Union's Failed Venus Probe Is About To Slam Into Earth
The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus spacecraft is set to make a somewhat delayed reappearance as it slams into the Earth in the next few weeks. As well as this, the series of probes ...
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Soviet-era spacecraft is set to plunge to Earth a half-century after its failed launch to Venus
"But it cannot be completely excluded."The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it out of Earth orbit because ...