ForbesHow To Track The Dead Soviet Lander Falling Back To Earth SoonBy Eric Mack Cosmos 482 Likely to Land With a Splash or Distant Crash But with ... the probe’s impact site is likely to ...

A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to ...

According to CNN, Cosmos 482 is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere ... accurately predicting the exact crash site in advance remains extremely difficult. Most objects that reenter Earth ...

And while the global space community has taken steps in recent years to ensure that fewer spacecraft make uncontrolled crash-landings back on Earth, the Cosmos 482 vehicle highlights the ...

Based on Langbroek's predictions, the science news site Live Science has predicted that the re-entry range of Cosmos 482 will extend as far north as London, England, and as far south as Chile ...

NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth sometime between May 7 and May 13. The spacecraft is most likely to begin its descent on May 10, though. The space agency said that since ...

Cosmos 482 was one in a pair of identical Venus atmospheric lander probes that launched in 1972. Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon crash ...

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