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Defunct Soviet Spacecraft Set to Crash to Earth in Fiery End to 53-Year Orbit
This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th, 2012. Though the Soviet Venera program to Venus was largely successful, the post Soviet, Russian-era space program has yet to successfully field a lunar or planetary mission.
Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early benchmark for exploring Venus. Its ...
Part of a failed Soviet spacecraft that’s been circling Earth for the last 53 years is about to come crashing down. The ...
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A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...
In about a week or so, a three foot (one meter) module from the failed Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 will be reentering ...
A half-ton Russian satellite that was built to land on Venus but never left Earth’s orbit could fall out of the sky intact in ...
A defunct Soviet -era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is poised for an uncontrolled descent back to Earth.
We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...
A COLD War era Soviet spaceship destined for Venus is set to crash back to Earth, and it could hit the UK. Kosmos 482 took ...
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