The long space journey of a failure of Soviet Venus is over. After having in orbit around our globe for more than fifty years, the Kosmos 482 probe crashed on Earth on Saturday.
According to the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the start of the school year took place in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, in Indonesia, around 2 a.m. (0624gmt or 9 a.m., Moscow time). It seems that Kosmos 482 fell into the sea without causing harm.
But it is only an estimate; Other follow -up groups and space agencies have projected reintegration points ranging from the eastern Pacific to the South Asian peninsula. We do not know if or when we know with certainty where Kosmos 482 fell.
While Kosmos 482 sailed above Rome, Italy, just before Daybreak on May 10, the astronomer Gianluca Masi of the virtual telescope project captured an image of the spaceship during one of his last orbits.
“Visible as a path entering the high field of vision and pointing to the lower right corner,” said Masi on his website, the probe is obvious on the image. “The image is the sum of four images, which is why the Cosmos 482 track seems to be destroyed.”
The planet on which Kosmos 482 was intended to settle is not the earth. The spacecraft was a component of the Soviet Union program, which in the 1960s, 1970s and in the early 1980s, sent a fleet of probes to Venus.
In 1972, Kosmos 482 took off to the stifling sister planet of the earth, but a dysfunction of the rocket left the spacecraft stuck on an elliptical orbit around the planet. The probe was gradually dragged down by an atmospheric drag over the next 53 years, leading to the spectacular conclusion today.
During their hot trips to earth, the majority of large pieces of space waste, such as spent rocket bodies and decomposing satellites, separate, producing artificial meteor showers.
