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Soviet Probe Will Strike Earth Next Week — What To Know
« on: May 01, 2025, 08:18:33 pm »
Forbes by Jamie Carter 5/1/2025

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The remains of a spacecraft launched by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 on a doomed mission to land on Venus could strike Earth between May 7 and 13 in a rare uncontrolled re-entry. Marooned in Earth orbit for 53 years, Kosmos 482 was built to withstand extreme temperatures on Venus, so it will survive re-entry if its heat shield is intact, but exactly where and when it will strike Earth is unknown.

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Kosmos 482, or Cosmos 482, was launched on March 31, 1972, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which was then part of the Soviet Union. It was designed to parachute into and land on Venus.

Shortly after its launch, a malfunction put it into an elliptical Earth orbit that caused it to get as close as 200 miles (320 kilometers) but as far as almost 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers). Since then its orbit has decayed considerably.

Instead of landing on Venus in 1972, this descent craft looks set to land on Earth in 2025, with Marco Langbroek, a satellite analyst tracking Kosmos 482, predicting it to reenter at 06:01 UTC on Saturday, May 10, plus or minus 2.8 days.

More: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2025/05/01/soviet-probe-will-strike-earth-next-week---what-to-know/
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Re: Soviet Probe Will Strike Earth Next Week — What To Know
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2025, 05:44:15 am »
Let party like it was Skylab!
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Re: Soviet Probe Will Strike Earth Next Week — What To Know
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2025, 06:04:51 am »
Soviet probe coming to Earth?

Do you think they'll find intelligent life here?
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Re: Soviet Probe Will Strike Earth Next Week — What To Know
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2025, 05:41:15 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on May 02, 2025, 06:04:51 am
Soviet probe coming to Earth?

Do you think they'll find intelligent life here?
Not if it lands in DC, that’s for sure.
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Re: Soviet Probe Will Strike Earth Next Week — What To Know
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2025, 05:54:31 pm »
Maybe it will land on Portland.
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Re: Soviet Probe Will Strike Earth Next Week — What To Know
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2025, 05:59:34 pm »
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Re: Soviet Probe Will Strike Earth Next Week — What To Know
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2025, 08:16:10 pm »
We need a Where will it Strike the Earth poll.
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Re: Soviet Probe Will Strike Earth Next Week — What To Know
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2025, 08:20:32 pm »
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Maybe it will land on Portland.
I was hoping for Mecca.
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« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2025, 08:22:58 pm »
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We need a Where will it Strike the Earth poll.
In the water...
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« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2025, 08:27:23 pm »
Marked safe from Russian space debris.

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arco Langbroek, a space situational awareness expert at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands, has been tracking Kosmos 482. According to him, its orbital inclination of 51.7 degrees means it could come down anywhere between 52° North and 52° South latitude. This includes much of the populated world, from southern UK to parts of New Zealand
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