The apparatus, which is supposed to explore Venus, remains near -earth orbit, but this week can enter the environment of our planet.
The Soviet Space Apparatus Cosmos-482, launched in March 1972 to get to Venus, returned to Earth this week after more than half a century in space.
According to the New York Times, the device should reach the hot surface of the second planet of the solar system, but due to the poor rocket operating stuck to the orbit of our planet.
Despite decades in space, the device weighing about half a ton will probably partially survive the entrance to the ground environment. This is due to the fact that it is created for extreme conditions of Venus, including high temperatures and pressure.
However, as Jonathan McDowell noted from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, there are few chances of having a major damage from the collapse of the Cosmos-482. Darren Maknight, senior technical employee of Leolabs, who tracks objects in space, also believes it is not worth remembering:
“I don’t care and don’t advise my friends to hide in the basement because of this. Usually about once a week a big thing is back to the ground environment, and some of its fragments have reached the planet’s surface,” he explained.
According to forecasts, Space-482 may return to Earth on May 9 or 10, but the exact time of entry into the environment remains unsure. Due to the high-speed device-high than 27 thousand kilometers per hour-even a slight mistake in time can change its area of fall by thousands of kilometers. Government policy orbit covers territories between 52 degrees of north and southern latitudes, which include Africa, Australia, most of America, as well as an integral part of Europe and Asia.
Earlier it was reported that the Hubble telescope took a wonderful picture of the NGC 3596 Spiral Galaxy located at the constellation Leo.
Alpha Missile did not successfully enter the orbit during the launch of the satellite
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Source: korrespondent
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