A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it out of Earth's orbit because of a rocket malfunction. Most of it came tumbling down within a ...

A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to ...

The Soviet Union’s pioneering space missions were among the first to penetrate the thick, toxic clouds of Venus and reveal ...

It's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on May 10 +/- 4.35 hours.

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space ... Thanks to a rocket malfunction, however, it never escaped Earth orbit. Most of its launch debris fell back ...

On March 31, 1972, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft as part of ... the capsule — dubbed Kosmos-482 — began spiraling back towards Earth. Researchers now say it's expected to land ...

May 2 (UPI) --A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land. The Kosmos 482 mission ...

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A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus more than 50 years ago plunged to Earth on Saturday. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed the spacecraft – known as ...