A spaceship in the Soviet era plunged to earth on Saturday, more than half a century after its failed launch in Venus.
The European Union spatial surveillance agency has confirmed its uncontrolled school year, based on the analysis and disappearance of the spacecraft on the following orbits. The European Space Debris Bureau of the European Space Agency also indicated that it had returned to the atmosphere after failing to appear on a German radar station.
We did not immediately know where the half-tonne spaceship entered or how much, if necessary, of it survived the fiery descent of the orbit. The experts said before the event that some and perhaps all of this could crash, since it was built to resist a landing on Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system.
The chances that anyone who was touched by space vessel debris was extremely low, scientists said.
Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the Kosmos 482 spacecraft was part of a series of missions to Venus. But he never got out in orbit around the earth, blocked there by a dysfunction of the rocket.
A large part of the spacecraft returned to earth in the decade of the failure of the launch. More capable of resisting the tug of gravity when its orbit decreased, the spherical landing – about 1 meter in diameter – was the last part of the spaceship to descend. The landing was locked in titanium, according to experts, and weighed more than 495 kg.
After the descending spiral of the spacecraft, scientists, military experts and others could not locate in advance precisely when or where the spacecraft could descend. Solar activity has added to uncertainty, as well as the condition of deterioration of the spaceship after so long in space.
On Saturday morning, US Space Command had not yet confirmed the disappearance of the spaceship when it collected and analyzed the data on Orbit.
The military unit regularly monitors dozens of return each month. What distinguishes Kosmos 482 – and drew additional attention from government trackers and private spaces – is that it was more likely to survive the start of the school year, according to officials.
It also happened uncontrolled, without any intervention by the flight controllers, which normally target the Pacific and other large expanses of water for ancient satellites and other space debris.
