Cosmos-482 returned to Earth. Soviet research, launched in the spring of 1972 and had failed to explore Venus, crashed this Saturday, May 10 in the Indian Ocean.
According to a press release from the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, the machine entered the atmosphere in the morning, “560 kilometers west of the island of Middle Andaman, and fell to the Indian Ocean, west of Yakarta.”
“The descent of the container was monitored by the automated alert system for dangerous situations in space near the earth,” said Roscosmos, while the concerns had occurred in the fall in Cosmos-482.
A 53 -year -old orbit
The investigation, whose mission was to explore Venus, had undergone a “upper floor dysfunction.” The rocket holidays had already fallen on Earth in the 1980s, but a large piece remained in orbit for 53 years.
The capsule, spherical for approximately one meter wide and that weighed almost medium ton, had been built to survive heat and extreme pressure of Venus’s atmosphere.
Source: BFM TV
