The remaining payload in orbit weighs in at 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds); for context ... Be sure to catch sight of Kosmos-482 while you can, as a piece of space history lights up an increasingly ...

Venera-8, thought to be identical to Kosmos-482. (NASA Historical Archives) It's thought that a timer ... The remaining payload in orbit weighs in at 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds), for context, the ...

India has a notable history of air quality advancements ... The part, which was from the Kosmos 482 mission, was supposed to land on Venus but could not due to a malfunction in the spacecraft. Most ...

After 53 years stuck in space, a Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus has finally crash-landed back on Earth. The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly ...

It will be traveling at approximately 150 mph (242 km/h). While its intriguing history has earned the lander media attention, Kosmos 482 is just one of more than 1.2 million pieces of space junk ...

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t yet know where it may come down. By Nadia Drake A robotic Soviet ...

A 'ground track' map showing the latest predictions on where the Kosmos 482 Venus probe could fall to Earth on May 9 or May 10. | Credit: ESA/ESOC Space Debris Office Update for 3 p.m. ET on May 9 ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...

Update for 8:30 a.m. ET on May 10: Kosmos 482 has fallen harmlessly into the Indian Ocean west of Indonesia, according to according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos. In 1972, the Soviet Union ...