More than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, the Soviet space program embarked on a bold new undertaking to go where no human had gone before.

The Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, was launched in 1972 and was part of a series of missions bound for Venus, but it ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet probe launched in 1972, recently crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The mission to Venus failed due to a ...

The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday ...

The Soviet-era Kosmos 482 spacecraft, originally launched in March 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera program, has re-entered ...

But later, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that May 10 was the most likely date for its descent. Kosmos 482’s last orbit ... on May 10 for one of its final passes through ...

Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shared the final images of Kosmos 482 tumbling through ... "On 10 May 2025, the Cosmos-482 descent craft reentered Earth's atmosphere after 53 years ...

After more than half a century orbiting Earth, the Soviet-era space probe Cosmos 482 has brought its long and ultimately ...

Cosmos 482, launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1972 with a destination of Venus, malfunctioned and has been in ...

Kosmos 482 was launched in March 1972 as part of the Soviet Venera program to explore Venus from the surface. A launch mishap ...

and then deploying a parachute for the final descent to the surface. It was not designed to survive a full-on impact at top speed, however its titanium shell makes it very tough. As for where the ...