The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft was trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it has likely fallen back home, according to the ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet ...

A Soviet space probe that has been trying to get to Venus for the past 53 years is ... episode in Canadian-Soviet relations and space history. Kosmos 482 is not radioactive, but it was designed ...

A fragment of the failed Soviet Venus probe Cosmos 482 is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere around May 10, though ...

The Soviets launched Kosmos 482 in 1972, intending to send it to Venus to join other spacecraft in their Venera program. But ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, the former Soviet Union launched a probe to Venus. However, the rocket engines shut off too early, and the ...

A Soviet spacecraft from the Cold War era is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere after 53 years in orbit. The spacecraft, ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed ... attention because of Cosmos 482’s unique history. “This object was designed to survive reentering Venus, so there’s fair odds that it’ll ...