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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth orbit, it’s not your average piece of space junk.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) —If you look up at the night sky, you might get the chance to see a piece of Cold War history as it ... in Arizona is unknown.” The Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482, first ...