A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.

A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

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

A Soviet Venus probe that launched in 1972 and has been stuck orbiting Earth for 53 years is set to fall back to our planet ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

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a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared Elon Musk to Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev, the man behind the USSR’s earliest and most significant space achievements, including the world’s ...

TASS cited Putin, who was speaking on Russia’s space policy at a meeting with students ... It quoted him as drawing a comparison between Musk and Sergei Korolev, a Soviet engineer who was instrumental ...

Putin also compares Musk with Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space. Putin told students that “You know, there's a person who lives in the States, you could say that ...