Kosmos 482 Space Debris Management

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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 will crash into Earth soon

Old Soviet Kosmos 482 Venus lander's fall to Earth will be no ordinary space junk crash. Here's why

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 anomaly, stranding Kosmos 482 in an elliptical orbit around Earth.

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Soviet space debris: Kosmos 482 expected to crash in May

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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years, raising concerns over space debris

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After 53 years in space, failed Soviet probe Kosmos 482 falls back to Earth

Under a UN treaty, any surviving debris from the spacecraft would belong to Russia. Kosmos 482’s reentry highlights the ...

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No, Kosmos-482 didn’t land on anyone’s head

The object — part of the Kosmos-482 spacecraft that launched 53 years ... The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a ...

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Can Kosmos 482 survive the fall to Earth and the legacy of Soviet engineering

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

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Soviet-era spacecraft plunges back to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit

The European Space Agency's space debris office also indicated that Kosmos 482 had reentered after it failed to appear over a German radar station. It was not immediately known where the ...

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