The legacy of Soviet engineering, especially in the realm of spacecraft, is marked by a relentless pursuit of functionality and reliability. Soviet-made spacecraft like Kosmos 482 were designed ...

Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March ... “This is part of the environmental legacy of the cold war,” he says. “There’s all this rubbish left in space that’s now, decades ...

The Kosmos-482 mission was over shortly after it began, when a rocket malfunction during launch meant that it would never be able to reach its destination. After the vehicle’s upper stage failed ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

The Kosmos 482 probe was built and launched in 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera mission to explore Venus. The Soviets successfully launched the Venera 7 and 8 probes, which were the first ...

But the spacecraft never made it to Venus. Instead, the capsule — dubbed Kosmos-482 — began spiraling back towards Earth. Researchers now say it's expected to land somewhere on the planet this ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 on a failed mission to Venus is believed to ... radar could no longer detect the Kosmos 482, concluding that “it is most likely that the reentry has already ...

A small, unmanned Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to fall back to Earth sometime Friday night or Saturday morning. When it launched in March 1972, the spacecraft Kosmos 482 was slated for a 41 ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as 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 ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as 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 ...