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

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

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

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 ...

After 53 years stuck in space, a Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus has finally crash-landed back on Earth. The Kosmos ... junk. Experts say it won't be the last. "While the risk is ...

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

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.

The probe known as Cosmos 482 was meant to ... home after a chunk of space debris from the International Space Station tore through their roof. But in the case of Kosmos 482, astronomer McDowell ...

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.