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Failed Soviet satellite is falling back to Earth — scientists warn car-sized probe could be deadly
A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...
Soviet Probe May Strike Earth Next Wednesday — What To Know
A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...
Uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere of the Russian spacecraft Kosmos 482: impact expected on May 9
A half-ton Russian satellite that was built to land on Venus but never left Earth’s orbit could fall out of the sky intact in ...
Soviet-era Venus mission to reenter in May
We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...
A 1,000 lb object will soon crash-land on Earth, reveal scientists! Here's all you need to know
A 1,000 lb former Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is predicted to crash-land on Earth between May 8 and 11. Launched in 1972, ...
Worst-case scenario if out-of-control 50-year-old spaceship were to crash land in London next week
DPhil Shubham Kulkarni of the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has provided a worst-case scenario if the ...