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Kosmos 482, a spacecraft designed to land on Venus and marooned in Earth orbit since being launched by the U.S.S.R. in 1972, ...
A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...
The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.
A 50-year-old Russian spacecraft is crashing back down to Earth this month, but nobody knows where it will land.