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 and its stranded mission to Venus Before it finally ...

Reentry occurred at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT or 9:24 a.m. Moscow time) over the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos. Kosmos 482 appears to have ...

Kosmos 482 is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere ... on May 10 +/- 3.28 hours, according to the European Space Agency. Based on current tracks and the dead probe's orbital inclination of ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft called Kosmos 482 has crashed on Earth after ... According to the AP, both the Russian Space Agency and the European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking Agency confirmed ...

Kosmos 482, launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 for a Venus mission, got stuck in Earth's orbit due to a rocket failure and never left. A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more ...

And according to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office, Kosmos 482 was last spotted over Germany before disappearing from radar, leading the office to conclude that reentry probably ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

The European Union Space Surveillance ... data from orbit. The U.S. Space Command routinely monitors dozens of reentries each month. What set Kosmos 482 apart — and earned it extra attention ...

The European ... space in 2022, a record number, according to the ESA. The vast majority of them burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, and most of those that didn’t splashed into an ocean. But ...