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Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...
Welcome home, Kosmos 482.
Humanity lives to fight another day after the failed Soviet lander re-entered our atmosphere at 2:24AM ET on Saturday before ...
Has Kosmos 482 Soviet spacecraft already crashed into Earth? Roscosmos says ‘It splashed down in…’
The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet spacecraft that was launched in 1972 on an unsuccessful trip to Venus, fell back into ...
No, Kosmos-482 didn’t land on anyone’s head
A spacecraft that's been hanging around in orbit after a botched launch more than half a century ago has finally crashed back ...
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Armored Venus lander crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
A potentially destructive Soviet Venus lander that was lost in space for over half a century has reentered the Earth's ...
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Failed Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth tonight, but when and where? Here's what we know
It's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on ...
Failed Soviet Venus probe is falling back to Earth: When, where Cosmos 482 could land
Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...
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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashes back to Earth, disappearing into Indian Ocean after 53 years in orbit
The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...
Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashes into Earth after 53 years near THIS place
A Soviet-era spacecraft called Kosmos 482 crashed into the Earth, after days of speculation, the Russian space agency ...
A failed Soviet-era spacecraft likely crashed back to Earth overnight
The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft was trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it has likely fallen back home, according to the ...
Forgotten Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos-482 returns to Earth after five decades, it was stuck in Earth orbit due to...
The Kosmos 482 spacecraft made a reentry into Earth's atmosphere, splashing down in the Indian Ocean approximately 560 ...
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Soviet Spacecraft Kosmos 482 Crashes to Earth After 53 Years
The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in 1972, ceased to exist, leaving orbit and falling into the Indian Ocean." According to calculations by specialists "from TsNIIMash (part of Roscosmos), the ...