A Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 on a failed mission to Venus would have collapsed on earth early Saturday morning.
The European Space Agency, which monitored the uncontrolled descent of crafts, said it had been spotted for the last time by the radar on Germany. At the time of his planned accident, Radar could no longer detect Kosmos 482, concluding that “it is very likely that the start of the school year has already occurred”.
No injury or damage has been reported.
The Kosmos 482 spacecraft was part of the USSR Venera program, a series of probes that have been developed to search for the Planet Venus. Ten of these missions managed to land on the warm and sterile planet, but the rocket carrying Kosmos 482 misunderstood. His superior stadium, which contained the descent profession, found himself stuck on the orbit of the earth. During the next 53 years, the spaceship about 3 feet wide and 1,069 pounds surrounded the earth in an ever more strabian elliptical orbit, until it gets close enough to fall into the atmosphere of the planet.
It is not unusual for space waste to fall on earth. More than 2,400 human manufacture objects fell from space in 2022A recording number, according to ESA. The vast majority of them burned in the earth's atmosphere, and most of those that have not been splashed in an ocean.
But Kosmos 482 was built to resist a descent through the dense atmosphere of Venus, and to operate on the surface of the planet, where the average temperature is 867 degrees Fahrenheit (464 C). This meant that it was theoretically robust enough to survive a relatively easy back to school through the atmosphere of the earth.
There is no recording of space debris which never causes a human death. “The risk of back to school by satellite causing injuries is extremely distant,” ESA officials wrote in a Blog article on Kosmos 482. “The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is less than 1 billion out of 100. In comparison, a person is about 65,000 times more likely to be struck by lightning.”
Friday, the American space force plans that the spaceship would enter the atmosphere at 1 h 52 HE Saturday morning above the Pacific Ocean, west of Guam.
