The Soviet spaceship Kosmos 482 will return to earth on Friday evening

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A spaceship from the Soviet period that should make a soft landing on Venus-buttocks for decades have been trapped in the flash of earth for decades, according to the latest estimates by experts from heaven on Friday evening or early Saturday.

It is believed that the object known as Cosmos 482 or Kosmos 482 is a capsule that started by the Soviet Union in March 1972 and had failed on the way to a transfer orbit that would have brought to Venus to examine its surroundings.

In the decades since then, the object has circled the earth aimlessly because it was slowly withdrawn home.

Astronomers and space traffic experts have been in the eye for years, since its orbital path has slowly and lower heights, which is due to the subtle atmospheric air resistance, which is even hundreds of kilometers from the earth.

The cylindrical vehicle with a diameter of about 1 meter (about 3 feet) will now return to earth overnight. Cosmos 482 is on the right track to meet the floor or ocean between 10 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. This emerges from four analyzes of the object of various institutions, including the European space agency and the USPACE Corporation, which is financed by the state.

This guide still corresponds to the predictions that were published by space traffic experts at the beginning of this week. The estimated time frame of the final descent of the vehicle will narrow if the event approaches.

Due to the mere complexity of space travel and the unpredictable factors such as space weather, it can be extremely difficult to determine exactly exactly when or where an object falls out of circulation.

This special piece of space clerk will probably not be a risk for local people.

“This object should survive the re -entry into Venus. So there is a fair probability that it will survive on Monday to return in one piece in one piece,” said Marlon Sorge, expert at Aerospace Corporation. “That makes the risk less … because it would remain intact.”

Often, when the garbage trims back from space from space, objects like no longer existing rocket parts are torn down by the annoying physics, as they can immerse themselves in the thick inner atmosphere of the earth, while they are still traveling with more than 17,000 miles per hour (27,000 kilometers).

Each of the pieces from the rocket part can then be a threat to the area in which it ends up.

But Cosmos 482 is uniquely suitable to make the trip home in one piece. The spaceship has a significant heat plate that protects the vehicle from the intensive temperatures and the pressure, which can build up when returning.

And because Kosmos 482 was designed in such a way that the surface of Venus has been reached -where the atmosphere is 90 times denser than the earth -the probe will probably reach the floor intact.

The Space Research Institute of the Soviet Union (IKI) carried out a groundbreaking Venus exploration program in the middle of the 20th century space.

As the program was called, Venera sent a number of probes towards Venus in the 1970s and 1980s, with several spaceships survived and data returned back to earth before setting the operations.

Of the two Venera vehicles that were launched in 1972, only one made it to Venus.

The other, one spaceship that was sometimes cataloged as V-71 No. 671, did not. And therefore researchers believe that the property that spatial traffic experts are pursuing is Cosmos 482.

While landing on dry soil is unlikely, it is not impossible. The Cosmos 482 object trajectory shows that it could meet anywhere within a broad country that “includes Africa, South America, Australia, the USA, parts of Canada, parts of Europe and parts of Asia,” said Marco Langbrök, lecturer and space expert at DLFT Technical University in the Netherlands in the Netherlands, by e -Mail.

Mare emphasized that when Cosmos 482 hits the ground this evening after his last descent, the audience is recommended to keep your distance. The old spaceship could expire dangerous fuels or represent other risks for humans and property.

“Contact the authorities,” urge concern. “Please don't put on it.”

From a legal point of view, the object is also part of Russia. According to the rules depicted in the space contract of 1967, which continues to underpin the main document for international law in this matter, the nation, which an object started into space, has retained property and responsibility, even if it falls back on earth for decades.

Although deceased objects routinely fall out of the orbit in space, most of the rubble pieces completely disassemble during the re -entry process.

But the world is in the middle of a new space race, with commercial companies such as SpaceX bring hundreds of new satellites to the orbit every year. This activity triggered the alarms in the space transport community, since experts try to ensure that objects do not collide in space or pose a risk to humans if they take an uncontrolled descent home.

The security standards have improved drastically since the space racing of the 20th century when the Soviet Venus probe started, Parker Wishik, a spokesman for the Aerospace Corporation.

Nevertheless, incidents like the upcoming impact event are a strong memory.

“What goes up has to come down,” said Wishik. “What they are building today could influence us in the coming decades.”