The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

Designed and built by Rocket Lab, the Pioneer spacecraft hosted Varda’s capsule on orbit for 60 days LONG BEACH, ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...

Like other Soviet probes of the time, the mission started by launching the probe and parking it in low-Earth orbit. From there, it should have made a 4-minute engine burn, pushing it into a Venus ...

The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery ...

Unable to fire its engines to reach a velocity that would have allowed it to transfer into Venus' orbit, the spacecraft was instead left stranded – earning it the Soviet "Kosmos" designation for ...

Since the engines failed to reach a necessary velocity to enter Venus' orbit, Cosmos 482 was abandoned in low-Earth orbit and it has moved around the planet ever since. The spacecraft will likely ...