Kosmos 482 was meant to explore Venus, but became an accidental satellite. Everything to know about the Soviet Venus probe ...

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t ...

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

Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...

The spacecraft separated into four pieces, two of which fell back to Earth shortly thereafter. The other two, believed to be ...

Launched over 50 years ago, this piece of the Kosmos 482 mission was designed to survive the punishing conditions on Venus.

The spacecraft’s expected area of reentry spans vast regions on both sides of the equator, where it could potentially land in ...

A lost Soviet satellite, Kosmos 482, is predicted to crash back to Earth, with a 500kg fragment potentially hitting the ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft launched in the 1970s, originally intended to land on Venus, is now expected to crash back to Earth. Nasa said that the Kosmos 482 spacecraft could reenter Earth’s atmosphere ...

A SOVIET spacecraft once destined for Venus is expected to crash land on Earth this week after more than 50 years stuck in ...