In a fiery end up to 53-year-old orbit: sciencealt

Kosmos-482 was already a fiery end in 1972.

It is one of the history books. After over 50 years in space, the cosmos 482 mission of the late Soviet Union will enter the earth's atmosphere at the beginning of next month.

Only a few weeks are stranded in the orbit in the earth's orbit to see this puzzling relic of a past era.

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In 2019 we wrote about this mission, who was doomed to fail and the prospects for re -entry. Started on March 31 on a Molniya-8k78m rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan^stIn 1972 the mission was likely to go to Venus.

A similar start with the successful mission of Venera 8 occurred on March 27th^TH1972, just four days earlier. We say “probably” when the Soviet space program of the 1960s and 1970s in relation to missions and starts was largely silent until they were successful.

This was the era of the Cold War when the relationships between East and West were in a Nadir. The Soviet Union never recognized the start failure, and the simple cosmos 482 name remained.

It is believed that a timer anomaly is stranded in the starting constriction. The payload separated into four parts shortly after the start, some of which had come back in New Zealand on April 3^RD Just three days after the start.

This type of failure would repeat itself with Phobos grunt during the failed mission, which had crashed back to earth on January 15th^TH2012.

Although the Soviet Venera program in Venus was largely successful, the Swiss Post has successfully presented a moon or planet mission.

Although the re -entry is uncontrolled, it is little risk for those on site.

The remaining payload in the orbit weighs 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) for the context, the spaceship of the upper atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), which came back on September 24th^THIn 2011, 5,900 kilograms took place.

The Kosmos-482-Lander can be bound to the Blok-L-Oberen stage, in which the mission was not sent on the way to Venus.

“Since this is a country that should survive for the passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will be survived again by the intact earth atmosphere through the earth's atmosphere,” says satellite observer and analyst Marco Langbroek in a recent blog post.

“However, there are many uncertain factors, including that this will be a long, flat re -entry track and the age of the object.”

Persecution of Kosmos-482

In a 52-degree inclination 156 x 394 kilometers circled the earth every 90 minutes.

The ID for the mission is 1972-023a/6073, and Space-Track currently has a tip message for the re-entry for the days that concentrate on and around May 10th^TH.

As with most reintroductions, we will see more precise predictions if we approach the re -entry time. Returning is still predicted for a fairly wide Schwad, 52 degrees north to 52 degrees southern width.

The mission begins a series of early Dawn Twilight passes for North America, right around the re -entry time.

Heavens-Above now has predictions for the mission on her main page.

It is also overcrowded up there. Satellites in the Low Earth orbit will go back to the US Vanguard 1. The load of space clerk will be more exponentially critical in 2025.

SpaceX continues at an exponential pace, and these are now accompanied by China's 1,000 sails, OneWeb, and only this week the Kuiper project of Amazon, which has completed a first start on April 28^TH As an offer of the company for its own mega satellite constellation.

It is not necessary to call them Six million dollars man Fight to do with the 'Venus -Teodessonde' … still. Be sure to look Kosmos-482 while you can illuminate an increasingly overcrowded sky if a piece of space history can be illuminated.

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