A derelict Soviet-era spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 is set to hurtle back toward Earth after more than five decades in orbit. Newsweek contacted Russia's Roscosmos via email for comment on Wednesday.

A defunct satellite returned to the Earth's atmosphere ... spread over a significant ground track, and that makes the probability (of being hit by debris) really low," said Carolin Frueh, a ...

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The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery reentry to Earth.

“If you hug the equator, you can hide from the tracking,” said McDowell. Therefore, an unexpected maneuver in this region would force engineers to try and locate the errant satellite in Earth ...

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Shortly afterwards, the U.S. Space Force confirmed the breakup of Intelsat 33e and began tracking ... as Earth’s rotation, and began operations in January 2017. The now-defunct satellite was ...

The satellite has sensors specifically designed to pick up the fingerprint of the methane molecule. The sensors now orbiting in space will then send data back to Earth in the coming months.

A refrigerator-sized satellite designed to measure emissions of climate-changing methane gas was shot more than 300 miles above the Earth's surface ... satellites can track overall methane ...

This allows ground antennas to maintain a constant connection without needing to track the satellite's movement. Intelsat has said that they are in the process of moving IS-33e's services to other ...