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A spaceship from the 1970s landed on earth on Saturday. Here.

A spaceship from the Soviet period fell to Earth on Saturday, more than half a century after its failed start in Venus.

His uncontrolled entry was confirmed by the Russian space authority as well as the space monitoring and persecution of the European Union. The Russians stated that it had occurred over the Indian ocean, but some experts were not so sure about the exact situation. The Space Debrin Office of the European Space Agency also pursued the downfall of the spacecraft after it did not appear over a German radar station.

It was not immediately known how much, if at all, of half the tons of spaceship, survived the fiery descent from the orbit. Experts said in advance that some, if not all that could collapse because it was built, to withstand a landing on Venus, the hottest planet of the solar system.

The chances that someone was exceeded by the spaceship were extremely low, said scientists.

The spaceship built in 1972 by the Soviet Union, which is known as cosmos 482, was part of a series of missions that were founded for Venus. But this never made it out of the orbit around the earth, which was stranded there by a rocket disorder.

A large part of the spacecraft fell back to earth after the failed start. The spherical lander was no longer able to resist the drag from Gravity when his orbit decreased. According to experts, the lander was enclosed in Titan and weighed more than £ 1,000 (495 kilograms).

According to a United Nations Treaty, every surviving debris will belong to Russia.

After scientists, military experts and others followed the downward spiral of the spacecraft, they could not determine exactly when or where the spaceship could do. The solar activity added uncertainty and the deteriorating state of the spacecraft after such a long time in space.

After so much anticipation, some observers were disappointed with the continued uncertainty about the exact whereabouts of the grave of the spacecraft.

“If it was over the Indian ocean, only the whales saw it,” said Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek about X.

The US space command had not yet confirmed the death of the spacecraft by Saturday afternoon when it collected and analyzed data from the orbit.

The US Space Command routinely monitors dozens of reinforcements every month. What distinguishes the cosmos 482 -and made it particularly attention from the government and private space trackers -was that according to officials, it would rather survive again.

It also came uncontrolled without flight regulators that normally target the Pacific and other wide water surfaces for old satellites and other space cases.

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