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According to the European Space Agency, Cosmos 482, an old Soviet spacecraft, fell from the sky on Saturday morning. The space object, also known as Cosmos 482, was sent to Venus more than 50 years ago to study its environment, but it failed and was stuck in the Earth’s orbit instead.
Cosmos 482 is believed to be a capsule launched by the Soviet Union in March 1972, which failed for a transfer orbit, which took it to Venus to study its environment.
In the decades after its launch, a cylinder-shaped craft of about 3 feet (1 m) diameter revolves around the earth, as it was gradually pulled back towards the house.
According to the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, the investigation entered the dense layers of the atmosphere around India on Saturday, 11 o’clock on Saturday at 12 noon (2:24 pm), which fell down into the Indian Ocean in the west of Jakarta, Indonesia.
The ESA, which was monitoring the falling space junk, also said on its website that the radar in Germany did not look around the IST (3:32 AM ET) at 1 pm, showing that “it is most likely that the reventry has already happened.”
Did it burst into flames?
Space traffic expert Cosmo was worried on Earth about uncontrolled re -entry of Cosmo 483 as it was no longer able to maneuver.
However, due to its strong heat shield, it was probably unlikely to burn perfectly when it resumed the Earth’s atmosphere. This makes it different from most space junk, which usually separates and burns before hitting the ground.
“This object Venus was designed to revive the object Venus, so it would be appropriate that it would return (to earth) in a piece (on Earth),” told CNN, an expert at a aerospace corporation, a space debris specialist Marlon Sorge told CNN.
“This really reduces the risk … because it will remain intact.”
What to do if you present debris?
Marlon Sorge said that if Cosmos 482 had landed on dry land, the audience would be advised to keep their distance. Older spacecraft can leak dangerous fuel or maintain other risks for people and property.
“Contact the authorities,” Sorge insisted. “Please don’t mess with it.”
According to the rules of the outer space treaty of 1967, legally, the object also belongs to Russia.
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