The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 (Cosmos 482) spacecraft is crashing to Earth within the next 40 hours, and the aerospace ...

Soviet satellite Kosmos 482 due to crash into Earth this week – what is the probe and where could it hit? - A failed Soviet ...

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

Unfortunately, as is often the case with sending spacecraft flying into the Solar System, not all of the probes made it to their final destination. One probe, launched in 1972, failed to make it to ...

An out-of-control Soviet-era spacecraft will plummet back to Earth on Saturday, if the latest tracking predictions are ...

After a failed soviet union mission to venus 53 years ago the spacecraft has been left in orbit around earth since the early ...

JONATHAN MCDOWELL, an astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who maintains a catalog of space objects, on the Kosmos-482, a half-ton Soviet-era craft which never made it to ...

The U.S. Space Force and other international space agencies are closely monitoring what could be a dramatic reentry of a long-abandoned Soviet spacecraft.

Kosmos 482 was meant to explore Venus, but became an accidental satellite. Everything to know about the Soviet Venus probe ...

Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft has now lost enough energy that it can’t fight gravity anymore.

The Kosmos 482 capsule was built tough for Venus. Its fall to Earth will make a huge fireball and may pose a small risk of ...

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its ...