This will be no ordinary space junk fall. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth ...

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A problem of determining attainable landing sites on the surface of Venus is an essential part of the Venera-D project aimed to explore the planet using a lander. This problem appears due to the ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in Earth orbit for decades — is slated to fall from the sky Friday night or early Saturday, ...

We're less than a week from a former Soviet Union spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere, but there's a problem: nobody knows where it's going to land – and it looks like it's going to land, rather ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a botched mission to Venus. Cosmos 482 launched in 1972 with the intent of landing on Venus for ...

Venus, Earth's hostile twin, is growing more unpredictable for upcoming space missions. Extreme heat, crushing pressure, and corrosive clouds already ...

On this date, Jan. 6, 1969, the Soviet Union launched the Venera 5 spacecraft from it's Earth Orbit parking space just hours after taking off from the surface. Venera 5 was part of an ongoing mission ...

The annual meeting of a scientific committee called the Venus Exploration Analysis Group, or VEXAG, coincided this year with Halloween. Befitting the occasion, there were both tricks and treats for ...

"In about two weeks from now, on or near May 9-10, an unusual uncontrolled reentry will happen." In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran ...