The spacecraft of the Soviet era fell to the ground on Saturday, more than half a century after an unsuccessful launch on Venus.
A Cosmos of the European Union Observation and tracking confirmed its uncontrolled return, based on the analysis and non -appeal of a spacecraft in subsequent orbits. The space garbage department of the European Space Agency also indicated that the spaceship returned after it did not appear at the German radar station.
It was not immediately known where a spacecraft appeared or how many, if any, at a half -ton of a spaceship survived a fiery descent from an orbit. Experts said in advance that some, if not all this can bring down We comeThe hottest planet of the solar system.
This photograph, provided by the researcher Jane Gryvz, shows the planet Venus, seen in the probe of Akatsuki of the Japanese Aerospace Industry Agency in May 2016. ((J. Greves/Cardiff University/Jaxa via AP)
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Scientists said that the chances that someone received the space of the garbage of the spacecraft were extremely low.
Launched in 1972 Soviet UnionThe spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions heading to Venus. But this one never came out of the orbit around the earth, which turned out to be a missile.
Most of the spaceship returned to Earth within a decade after an unsuccessful launch. It is no longer able to resist the towing of gravity, since its orbit decreased, a spherical landing planting – about 3 feet (1 meter) – was the last part of the spaceship to go down. According to experts, he paved in Titan and weighed more than 1000 pounds (495 kilograms).
The US space command has not yet confirmed the location of the spacecraft.
Following the descending spiral of a spacecraft, scientists, military experts and others could not accurately determine exactly when or where the spaceship could decrease.
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Solar activity added to uncertainty, as well as a worsening state of a spaceship after such a long space.
As of Saturday morning, the American space command has not yet confirmed the death of the spacecraft, since it collected and analyzed data from orbit.
The US space command usually controls dozens of repeated resources every month. According to officials, which was stripped by Kosmos 482 – and attracted this additional attention from government and private space trackers – this is that it is more likely to survive in a second house.
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He was also uncontrolled, without any intervention of flight controllers, which are usually aimed at the Pacific Ocean and other vast simplicity of water for old satellites and other cosmic debris.
