Satellite re-entry
#Reentry
After 53 years in orbit, the Soviet-era Kosmos 482 spacecraft made an uncontrolled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on May 10, 2025, over the Indian Ocean. Originally intended for a Venus mission in 1972, the craft became long-term space debris due to a launch failure.
#Kosmos482 #SpaceDebris #Reentry #SovietSpacecraft #SpaceSafety #SpaceJunk #EarthOrbit #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/soviet-spacecraft-kosmos-482-reentry-after-53-years/
The baby's not far along yet to be born during a massive meteor storm, but one can't help but wonder what that would be like...
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Reentry prediction Soviet-era Venera Venus lander (Cosmos-482 descent craft).
https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2025/05/07/reentry-prediction-soviet-era-venera-venus-lander-cosmos-482-descent-craft/
#cosmos482 #esa #reentry #space
@cosmos4u also they all propably use similar #tracking #radar and models re: upper atmosphere and the rotation and speed of it.
- Needless to say all of them expect it to crash down as a glowing hot 500kg chonk of metal hitting the surface.
Pretty shure the window will tighten once they have visual contact at the beginning of #reentry and I'm shure any telescope in the flight path that has enough angular speed will try to track it down with it's pathway and send a live video feed with location, direction and elevation to their space agency to help in that endeavour.
Reentry prediction Soviet-era Venera Venus lander (Cosmos-482 descent craft) by ESA
#cosmos482 #1972-023A #reentry #venera #esa
Inversion completes first flight of reentry vehicle, but without reentry
For those interested the Kosmos 482 decent craft track is now available live via:
https://www.n2yo.com/?s=6073&live=1
It is due to make an uncontrolled re-rentry sometime in the next few days
The current nominal forecast is reentry on 10th May 2025, 23:06 UTC ± 1.8 days
This spacecraft orbit does take it over the southern part of the UK. UK pass details can be found via:
https://www.n2yo.com/passes/?s=6073
which are just the visable passes .
🌕 SPACE | 🇷🇺 RUSSIA
🔴 Soviet Venus Probe to Crash Back to Earth After 53 Years
🔸 Kosmos 482, stuck in orbit since 1972, to re-enter in early May.
🔸 Half-ton capsule may survive reentry—impact zone unknown.
🔸 Built to endure Venus' atmosphere; heat shield still intact.
🔸 Risk is minimal, but object may hit anywhere between Canada & South America.
"Part of a spacecraft that launched in 1972 and has been orbiting Earth for 53 years is due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere in the next two weeks and could crash to the ground intact, scientists say. The 1,100-pound module... is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere sometime between May 7 and May 13 in an event that is being closely watched by scientists.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/02/kosmos-482-earth-reentry-venus-mission/
Radian Aerospace unveils plans for reentry vehicle
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/radian-aerospace-unveils-plans-for-reentry-vehicle/
Soviet Venera 8 spacecraft is coming home. (Any day now.) #space #Venera8 #reentry
Cue up the Peter Schilling
@Marco_Langbroek's post on Bluesky:
"In about 2 weeks from now, an unusual #uncontrolled #reentry will happen: a 53-year-old landing capsule from a failed Soviet #Venera mission stuck in Earth orbit.
It will likely survive reentry.
More info, including reentry forecasts, in this blogpost:
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/04/kosmos-842-descent-craft-reentry.html"
Also, Scott Manley does cover this in recent video: https://youtu.be/vGQgmnQ1FtA
EarthSky's article: https://earthsky.org/space/kosmos-482-soviet-spacecraft-to-fall-to-earth-may-2025/
Will watch Kosmos 482 closely, hopefully everyone's safe... 👀
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Atmos Space Cargo declares first test flight a success despite reentry uncertainty
Kenya Space Agency Warns of Possible Space Debris Re-entry in Eastern Africa #EastAfrica #Africa #agency #Debris #eastern #Kenya #Reentry #space #warns
https://tinyurl.com/26lll45h
@kim_harding "Are satellites bad for the environment?"
Tthe article is right regarding light pollution and carbon cost of ascent, but fails to note Kessler Syndrome / Collisional Cascading, and doesn't say the minimum re-entry pollution.
Satellite re-entry pollution is more impactful than the mass alone would suggest because of (catalytic?) effects of metals in different atmospheric strata where otherwise there's very little of those elements.
"Measurements show that about 10% of the aerosol particles in the stratosphere contain aluminum and other metals that originated from the “burn-up” of satellites and rocket stages during reentry. [...] These measurements have broad implications for the stratosphere and higher altitudes.
The mass of lithium, aluminum, copper, and lead from the reentry of spacecraft was found to exceed the cosmic dust influx of those metals" [1]
[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313374120
Also excellent: https://earthsky.org/earth/space-vehicle-re-entries-shed-exotic-metal-particles-in-earths-atmosphere/
re: https://pirg.org/edfund/articles/are-satellites-bad-for-the-environment/
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The eighth flight 🚀 test of #Starship is preparing to launch as soon as 📆 Monday, March 3.
The upcoming flight will target objectives not reached on the previous test, including Starship’s first #payload 🛰️ deployment and multiple #reentry experiments geared towards returning the upper stage to the launch site for #catch 🦾. The flight also includes the launch, return, and catch of the #SuperHeavy booster. https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-8
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