A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to conduct ...
A wayward Soviet spacecraft, adrift for more than half a century, will fall to Earth on Friday or Saturday, astronomers said. The craft, which came to be known as Cosmos 482, was Venus-bound when it ...
Designed to survive a trip to Venus, the aging vehicle is believed to be capable of easily surviving a trip through Earth's atmosphere. NASA predicts the decaying probe could reenter Earth's ...
Most calculations predict the decaying probe's remnants could come crashing down early Saturday morning. Given its orbit, the spacecraft could land pretty much anywhere, astronomers calculate. But ...
Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday, May 10, ...
A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to conduct ...