The Soviet-era Kosmos 482, a Venus-bound spacecraft launched in 1972, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere between May 9 and ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

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 Kosmos-482 mission was over shortly after it began, when a rocket malfunction during launch meant that it would never be able to reach its destination. After the vehicle’s upper stage failed ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

After more than five decades silently orbiting our planet, a relic of the Cold War space race is making a dramatic and fiery ...

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet probe originally bound for Venus, has been detected in a descending orbit that will ...

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 ...

What is the Soviet-era spacecraft, Cosmos 482? Cosmos 482 – also referred to as Kosmos 482 – is believed ... bound for the planet of Venus on a mission to make scientific measurements of ...

The Kosmos 482 probe was built and launched in 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera mission to explore Venus. The Soviets successfully launched the Venera 7 and 8 probes, which were the first ...