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A failed Soviet-era spacecraft likely crashed back to Earth overnight
The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft was trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it has likely fallen back home, according to the ...
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Remember VIPER, NASA’s Off-Again, On-Again Lunar Rover? It’s Still in Limbo
NASA’s nearly complete yet canceled lunar rover VIPER isn’t going to get carried to the moon by a private space exploration ...
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Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...
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Old Soviet Venus lander's fall to Earth will be no ordinary space junk crash. Here's why
Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an ...
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Failed Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth tonight, but when and where? Here's what we know
Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's historic Venera program of Venus exploration, which landed the first probe on the planet's surface in 1970 with the Venera 7 craft, and later sent back ...