A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...

Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early benchmark for exploring Venus. Its ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told Newsweek there were changes in Cosmos 2553's orbit amid speculation about the satellite ...

#TriviaThursday In 1972, the Soviet space program launched Kosmos 482, a probe intended to explore Venus. The rockets failed and the craft got stuck in Earth's orbit, where it has been circling ...

Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ... We say "likely" as the Soviet space program of the 60s and 70s was largely silent concerning missions and launches until they ...

Commercial crew is the program that pairs NASA astronaut crews (and Russian cosmonauts ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early ... But instead, after a rocket malfunction stranded it in Earth’s orbit, the lander has been circling ...

As such, rather than receiving a Venera designation, the stranded spacecraft was given the name Kosmos 482, and the Soviet space program moved on ... "was labelled as Kosmos-482, one as the rocket ...