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Live: 53 Year COSMOS 482 Reentry

Live: 53 Year COSMOS 482 Reentry 

Live: 53 Year COSMOS 482 Reentry

The European Space Agency confirmed the spacecraft had plunged back into earth’s atmosphere after it failed to appear over a German radar station.

Cosmos reentered the earth’s atmosphere at 2.24am eastern American time, 6.24am in London, in Indian Ocean near Jakarta, capital of Indonesia.  This according to Russia’s space agency Roscosmos.

Cosmos 482 wasn’t supposed to orbit our planet for decades. Launched by the Soviet Union on March 31, 1972, it was intended to be a Venus lander, part of the same interplanetary mission series that included the successful Venera 8, which did make it to Venus.

Cosmos 482 was its twin, tasked with following the same path to the scorching planet. But an error in its launch sequence —specifically a faulty timer— kept the craft trapped in Earth orbit. The final day of Cosmos 482’s extraordinary 53-year journey is here.

Once intended for Venus, this rugged, half-ton Soviet space probe now expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere.

Officials noted it had a higher chance of surviving reentry than most objects.

credit NASA

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Don’t miss reentry of #COSMOS482 its been in orbit for 53 years view LIVE here wp.me/p4BB8h-1u8F not long before it lands but don’t know where #space #ynuktv

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