Representational AI image A Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos 482 is about to fall back to Earth more than 50 years after it failed to reach Venus. Launched in 1972 as part of the USSR’s Venera programme, the aircraft aimed to study the solar system’s hottest planet. But due to a rocket failure, it never left […]
A former Soviet spacecraft is predicted to crash back to Earth this week. Weighing approximately 453 kg, Kosmos 482 will reenter the planet’s atmosphere around May 10, CNN reported. Launched in 1972, Kosmos 482 malfunctioned on its way to Venus. An issue with a timer resulted in an early engine shutdown, trapping the Soviet spacecraft […]
Kosmos 482 may look a bit like this (Photo credit: Nasa) A Soviet spacecraft launched in the 1970s for a mission to Venus is now expected to make an uncontrolled return to Earth, according to space debris-tracking experts.Dutch scientist and satellite tracker Marco Langbroek from Delft University of Technology says the re-entry of the failed […]
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on April 19, 2025. Nasa astronaut Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday not in the quiet of retirement or with a cozy […]
