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 ...

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

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 failed Soviet Venus lander's long space odyssey has come to an end. The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred at ...

After over five decades in Earth's orbit, the Soviet Venus lander, Kosmos 482, reentered the atmosphere on May 10, 2025, splashing down in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia. A malfunction during its ...

The Soviet Union launched over a dozen probes to Venus—most successfully ... Now, over 50 years later, the one-meter-large Kosmos 482 is coming home, albeit a bit haphazardly.

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet spacecraft that was launched in 1972 on a failed trip to Venus, fell back into Earth on Saturday morning. The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet spacecraft that ...

but Kosmos 482 was something special. It was originally one of the Soviet Union's Venera series of probes intended to explore the planet Venus. However, shortly after launch on March 31 ...

After more than half a century in space, a failed Soviet mission to Venus — Kosmos 482 — is on a collision course with Earth. The 3-foot-wide lander, originally designed to survive the brutal ...

The Kosmos 482 probe was built and launched in 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera mission to explore Venus. The Soviets successfully launched the Venera 7 and 8 probes, which were the first ...