The Soviet-era Kosmos 482, a Venus-bound spacecraft launched in 1972, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere between May 9 and ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

The Kosmos 482 probe was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet missions aimed at exploring Venus's harsh environment. Launched in 1972, it was designed to collect data from the planet's ...

A cold-war era Russian satellite is falling to Earth and is likely to survive re-entry and hit somewhere in Europe at the ...

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

After more than five decades silently orbiting our planet, a relic of the Cold War space race is making a dramatic and fiery ...

No need for major concern, but you wouldn't want it bashing you on the head.' The Kosmos 482 mission launched in March 1972 carrying a probe that was supposed to detach and fly all the way to Venus.

The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race ... Soyuz rocket booster that lofted the ship skyward scrubbed its mission, leaving the craft with just enough velocity to be marooned ...

Kosmos 482’s last orbit and its stranded mission to Venus Before it finally perished, Kosmos 482 did one last orbit of the Earth. Astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project caught ...

Languages: English and some Welsh. The spacecraft Kosmos 482, launched in 1972, crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday after spending over five decades in orbit. Newsweek contacted the European ...