The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday ...

After over five decades in Earth's orbit, the Soviet Venus lander, Kosmos 482, reentered the atmosphere on May 10, 2025, ...

The spacecraft Kosmos 482, launched in 1972 ... injury is extremely remote. The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a ...

A spacecraft that's been hanging around in orbit after a botched launch more than half a century ago has finally crashed back ...

The world was watching the skies as Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft launched in 1972, made an uncontrolled re-entry into ...

There’s no record of space debris ever causing a human fatality. “The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote,” ESA officials wrote in a blog post about Kosmos 482.

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft launched in 1972, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Saturday after over 50 years in orbit. Russia claimed it landed in the Indian Ocean, but the European Space Agency ...

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 ...

And according to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office, Kosmos 482 was last spotted over Germany before disappearing from radar, leading the office to conclude that reentry probably ...

A Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched in 1972 ... it will fall over an ocean or uninhabited area, posing minimal risk to populated regions.

The European Union Space Surveillance ... by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said. Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series ...

As per The Guardian, the European Space Agency's (ESA) space debris office also confirmed that Kosmos 482 had re-entered the atmosphere after it failed to appear over a German radar station.