You can stay up-to-date on Kosmos 482’s predicted reentry time on Aerospace’s tracking page. Secondly, the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking Operation Centers (EU SST) is also tracking the ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT or 9:24 a.m. Moscow time) over the Indian Ocean ...

But the spacecraft never made it to Venus. Instead, the capsule — dubbed Kosmos-482 — began spiraling back towards Earth. Researchers now say it's expected to land somewhere on the planet this ...

In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled approach towards Earth. Experts have been tracking it since – though they noted that it was very unlikely ...

A small, unmanned Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to fall back to Earth sometime Friday night or Saturday morning. When it launched in March 1972, the spacecraft Kosmos 482 was slated for a 41 ...

Experts note that, while such re-entries are rare, they show the need for continued vigilance in tracking objects in Earth's orbit. Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's Venera program between ...

Satellite trackers and astronomers have been tracking Kosmos 482 for years. In 2019, there were reports that the craft might fall within a year, which didn't happen. Astrophotographer Ralf ...

The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ... Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound ...

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's orbit because of a rocket malfunction. Most of it came ...