More than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, the Soviet space program embarked on a bold new undertaking to go where no human had gone before.

After over five decades in Earth's orbit, the Soviet Venus lander, Kosmos 482, reentered the atmosphere on May 10, 2025, ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet probe launched in 1972, recently crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The mission to Venus failed due to a ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

The Soviet-era Kosmos 482 spacecraft, originally launched in March 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera program, has re-entered ...

BRIN Space Research Center has reported that the spacecraft Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth on Saturday afternoon, .

Kosmos 482 itself is part of the Soviet Union's Venus exploration program known as Venera. This spacecraft weighs about 1.2 ...

not all of the probes made it to their final destination. One probe, launched in 1972, failed to make it to its target, earning it the name Kosmos 482. "Beginning in 1963, the name Cosmos was ...

The Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, was launched in 1972 and was part of a series of missions bound for Venus, but it ...