Soviet Union's Spacecraft Kosmos 482 probe just crashed down to Earth just now on today (10 May) after 53 years of its launching, over the Indian Ocean near Jakarta, Indonesia revealed by Russian Space Agency.
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| Kosmos 482 Just Crashed Down harmlessly |
Kosmos 482 Just Crashed Down Without Any Casualty-
Soviet Union's Spacecraft Kosmos 482 probe just fall down in indian ocean near Jakarta, Indonesia. According to Russian Space Agency Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 orbiting Earth's orbit more then 50 year now fall back into Earth's ocean harmlessly at 9.24 a.m. Moscow time. An image of Kosmos 482 was taken by Astronomer Gianluca Masi during its one of final orbits when it was passed over Rome, Italy just at dawn on 10th May.
It was originally about 1 meter wide and about 495 kg weighted and made for survival in harsh environment of Venus (i.e. extreme temperature and pressure) so it. not getting fired or breaking at the time of reentry into Earth's atmosphere and hit Earth's surface about 240 kph according to a Dutch satellite tracker Marco Langbroek.
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What was the crashed Spacecraft tonight?
The mission Venera is launched by Soviet Union in the year of 1970s to exploring the planet Venus. During this mission 2 Soviet Union's Spacecraft launched successfully on the surface of Venus. But this probe of Spacecraft was not launched successfully and remain orbiting into our Earth's orbit. Over the time after 53 years of its launching in March, 1972 spacecraft reentry into our earth atmosphere and fall down into Indian ocean iear Jakarta, Indonesia luckly without any harm.
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