Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT or 9:24 a.m. Moscow time) over the Indian Ocean ...

After over five decades in Earth's orbit, the Soviet Venus lander, Kosmos 482, reentered ... growing concern of space junk and its potential safety and environmental risks. A chapter of space ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey to Venus more than 50 years ago.

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

There have been more space flights in recent ... now enough large and heavy debris in orbit to pose a significant risk. Until now, the pronouncements about Kosmos 482 have been that it will ...

There’s no record of space debris ever causing a human fatality. “The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote,” ESA officials wrote in a blog post about Kosmos 482.

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains ...

A Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched in 1972 ... it will fall over an ocean or uninhabited area, posing minimal risk to populated regions.

While that prediction was thankfully revised, the planet may have to worry about another object plummeting down from the heavens — a 1970s spacecraft called Kosmos 482. The Soviet-era spacecraft ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after being stuck in orbit for more than half a century, the European Space Agency said.

The spacecraft Kosmos 482, launched in 1972 ... injury is extremely remote. The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a ...