Cold War-era Soviet probe set to crash back to Earth next week

Image: Artist’s concept of a satellite entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Image credit: ESA/David Ducross. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Article by David Szondy. New Atlas – May 04, 2025. Source: SatTrackCam Leiden.

The Space Age past may come knocking on the world’s door next week as the defunct Soviet Union’s Kosmos 482 Venus lander from 1972 makes an unwelcome return home and is predicted to crash into the Earth’s atmosphere around May 10. As part of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States, the Soviets pursued an aggressive lunar and deep space exploration program from 1959 until 1989, with mixed results. […]

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