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Defunct Soviet Spacecraft Set to Crash to Earth in Fiery End to 53-Year Orbit
This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th, 2012. Though the Soviet Venera program to Venus was largely successful, the post Soviet, Russian-era space program has yet to successfully field a lunar or planetary mission.
Part of a failed Soviet spacecraft that’s been circling Earth for the last 53 years is about to come crashing down. The ...
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A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...
A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...
We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...
Known as the flower moon, May's full moon will reach peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. ET on Monday, May 12, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. May's full moon will be a micromoon, which is when the ...
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