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A defunct Soviet probe from the 70s will crash to Earth next week
Each cloud represents in visible form (due to water droplets) a rising column of air,” the Earth Observatory says. NASA/Earth Observatory A blast from the past will be hitting Earth next week, as a failed Soviet spacecraft will make an uncontrolled re-entry into the planet’s atmosphere.
Defunct Soviet Spacecraft Set to Crash to Earth in Fiery End to 53-Year Orbit
This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th, 2012. Though the Soviet Venera program to Venus was largely successful, the post Soviet, Russian-era space program has yet to successfully field a lunar or planetary mission.
Soviet satellite Kosmos 482 is set to tumble back to Earth's atmosphere after 50 years in orbit, and its landing spot remains ...
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Instead, it broke up into pieces soon after leaving the Earth’s atmosphere, and what’s left of Kosmos 482 has been stuck in a low-Earth orbit ever since. Now 53 years later, the craft is ...
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