After spending more than five decades in orbit, the final piece of the Soviet rocket Cosmos 482 has finally fallen to Earth after a failed mission of Venus
Dramatic material have been shared online at the time at Soviet Union Crash landed on Earth after passing more than five decades to socket. Cosmos 482 was launched in 1972 with the intention of traveling to Venus to explore his atmosphere and toxic and acidic surface. However, it was broken into pieces, some of which remained in space for 53 years. It was revealed last week that Cosmos 482 was due to re -enter the Earth’s atmosphere at some point between May 7 and 13, which turned out to be the case.
Space communications expert, Alexandra give Tiktok Last week, also emphasizing the projected “orbital route”, which suggests that there is a “good coincidence” Cosmos 482 could reach somewhere. The route went through the United States, through Africa and on the Indian Ocean, where it apparently has touched.
In the first hours of Sunday morning (May 11), a X The user in Australia shared pictures of what they thought Cosmos 482 illuminated the night sky. “It was fortunate to see that Cosmos 482 flew over Central Victoria, Australia,” they wrote next to their video.
“If you had only had a scale in your hand!” He left a person in response, to whom the user X replied: “She was only 122 km high, happy she flew over her house and not her.”
Since then, the European Space Agency has reported that it has probably already reached Earth, as it was not seen in the most recent step over the radar in Germany. Meanwhile, Russia’s own space agency, Roscosm He stated that the re -entry occurred at 2:24 am et (0624 GMT) over the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia.
It is not clear to the point where Cosmos 482 separated, if, when entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Previously, Alexandra emphasized that unlike the satellites, which are burned and disintegrated when they re -enter our atmosphere, Cosmos 482 is built as a “cosmic tank”, as it was specifically designed to manage the pressure and temperatures of the Venus level.
“It has a heat shield and is intended to support up to 300gs of acceleration,” he said. “So there is a good chance that it reaches the surface of a planet, only the wrong planet!”
In contrast, however, the University of Colorado Boulder, Marcin Pilinski, argued: “Although we can foresee that most of this object will not be burned in the atmosphere during the atmosphere, it can be severely damaged by the impact.”
The advantage is that Cosmos 482 is not massive: the expert revealed that it has a weight of 1,000 pounds and four feet. “But it will travel incredibly fast because it will basically fall out of outdoor space,” Alexandra said.
“Much is over the ocean and could land elsewhere. And maybe it has been in space so long and has traveled because of so much radiation that it is a heat shield that sucks now and does not reach the surface. But it would not hurt to see.”