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Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

The Soviet-era Kosmos 482, a Venus-bound spacecraft launched in 1972, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere between May 9 and ...

Nearly 46 years after the Skylab space station caused a sonic boom as it blazed a kaleidoscopic trail across the WA sky, ...

Kosmos 482 itself is part of the Soviet Union's Venus exploration program known as Venera. This spacecraft weighs about 1.2 ...

As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth’s orbit, Kosmos 482 is not your average piece of space junk ...

A Soviet space probe, stranded in Earth’s orbit for 53 years, is set to re-enter the atmosphere this week. And it may not ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days ...

A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm.

The uncontrolled re-entry of a spacecraft launched over half a century ago is expected to take place tomorrow and the UK ...

Kosmos 482, a doomed Soviet spacecraft, is set to return to Earth in an 'uncontrolled reentry' after 50 years in space ...

The Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is expected to plummet back to Earth this week, over half a century after its initial ...