Reentries can be possible to see from the ground, but Cosmos 482's reentry visibility will be dependent on where it lands. If the spacecraft lands in the ocean or an unpopulated area, it won't be ...

The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are upon ... “The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote,” notes the ...

The probe known as Cosmos 482 was meant to eventually sputter out ... A large swath of the globe could be a potential reentry location for the space debris. And estimates from Marco Langbroek ...

A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to ...