She circled 53 years in space, now that she came down: the journey of the Kosmos-482 room, which was shot from the Soviet Union in 1972, ended in the Indian Ocean on Sunday.
The room apparatus entered the atmosphere of the earth at 8.24 am and then dived into the sea to the west of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, said the Russian Roskosmos room authority in Moscow.
The European space organization ESA did not confirm the crash for the time being, but also assumed on Sunday that the probe had now entered the atmosphere of the earth.
Due to a fault in a high job
“The device was launched in the spring of 1972 to explore Venus, but remained in a high elliptical track around the earth due to a malfunction of the upper level (failure of the carrier rocket, note) and gradually approached the planet,” said Roskosmos. The import of the probe was controlled by a “automated system for warning about dangerous situations in space close to the earth”.
The crash of the nearly 500 kilogram probe with a diameter of about one meter was originally expected for Saturday. However, it was completely unclear where to meet the earth.
Experts had previously expected that the probe of extremely resistant material as a whole could arrive on earth because it was designed to survive access to the atmosphere of Venus. However, Roskosmos now wrote: “There are no more Cosmos-482.”
Soviet -Union explored Venus
Between 1961 and 1983, the Soviet Union had sent various rooms to Venus as part of the Verena program to explore the foreign planet. Several of these probes also ended up on Venus and sent information from there.
Source: Krone
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