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 ...

But if the Cosmos 482 object is indeed a Soviet reentry capsule, it would be equipped with a substantial heat shield, meaning it “might well survive Earth atmosphere entry and hit the ground ...

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 Virginia-based Aerospace Corp., which operates a federally funded research and development center, is tracking the reentry of the Cosmos 482 probe. Its latest prediction shared Tuesday ...

That soon-to-reenter Cosmos 482 is getting increased attention by ... it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth atmosphere intact, and impact intact," reported Marco Langbroek ...

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 re-entry of a redundant craft in which the object in question might make it to the ground intact. To find out more about the story we have to travel back to the early 1970s, and Kosmos-482.

Will you be able to see Cosmos 482's reentry? 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 ...

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 ...