Cold War space relic finally crashes to Earth after 53 years of orbiting
A Soviet relic from the Cold War space race has finally returned to Earth after more than five decades in orbit. Cosmos-482, a failed Venus mission launched in 1972, made an uncontrolled reentry over the Indian Ocean on May 10, 2025, marking the end of one of the longest-orbiting pieces of space debris in history. … Lire plus