While the latter made it to Venus, the Soyuz rocket that carried Kosmos 482 into space malfunctioned after a successful launch ... Whether you’re into NFL touchdowns, NBA buzzer-beaters, world ...

The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after ...

Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 re-enters Earth's atmosphere after 53 years in orbit without causing injuries or damage, ...

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet spacecraft that was launched in 1972 on an unsuccessful trip to Venus, fell back into ...

"#EUSST is monitoring the re-entry of object Kosmos-482 Descent Craft (1972-023E #6073), the lander capsule of a spacecraft from 1972 intended to land in Venus. EU SST contributing sensors are ...

Russia's space agency says the Kosmos 482 lander has made an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. The half-tonne Soviet vehicle malfunctioned after its launch in 1972 ...

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by ... “And now it’s going to get its moment in atmospheric entry — albeit on the wrong planet.” ...

That's according to academic and satellite watcher Marco Langbroek from Delft Technical University in the Netherlands, who has been keeping an eye on the Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos 482 for ...

The UK capital is just one of the 26 cities listed as being potentially in the firing line of the spacecraft’s re-entry to Earth. Also on the list is Algiers, Durban, Salvador, Hiroshima, and ...

Within the period of the next 53 years, the spacecraft's orbit decayed slowly as atmospheric drag slowly pulled it towards Earth, leading to its re-entry today. Kosmos 482's reentry highlights the ...