A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander ... Indian Ocean, the Russian space agency ...

the Soviet Union fairly owned Venus. From 1961 to 1983, the U.S.’s old space race rival launched 16 probes, Venera 1 through Venera 16, that either flew by, orbited, or landed on Venus—with ...

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The world was watching the skies as Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft launched in 1972, made an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere after 53 years in orbit. Originally destined for Venus ...

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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 ...

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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 ...