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A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to Earth
In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached its destination, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling Kosmos 482 craft never made it past Earth’s orbit.
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Failed Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth tonight, but when and where? Here's what we knowIt's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on ...
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A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...
When might the re-entry occur? Marco Langbroek of SatTrackCam Leiden in the Netherlands, who first discovered that the satellite was falling back to Earth, used orbital data to calculate that ...
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