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A spacecraft that's been hanging around in orbit after a botched launch more than half a century ago has finally crashed back ...
The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet mission launched in 1972 for an unsuccessful trip to Venus, reentered Earth’s atmosphere ...
An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, after 53 years stuck in orbit, experts say. In recent ...
Kosmos 482 was built as the twin of Venera 8 ... land—the chances of a destructive impact grow as the number of reentries ...
the European Space Agency, which was keeping an eye on the craft's uncontrollably falling trajectory, informed that radar last detected it above Germany. Radars stopped monitoring the Kosmos ...
But later, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that May 10 was the most likely date for its descent. Kosmos 482’s last orbit and its stranded mission to Venus Before it ...