In late March 1972, the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 was released. However, the Venus Probe of that attempt ran Amac during a rocket-supported toss into a cloudy world. The main elements of the failed ship remained in Earth orbit.
The upper stage of the Soyuz booster launched the Venus probe being cut early and the payload remained murouted into Earth orbit. But there is new news about this old probe. “About two weeks from now, on May 9 or 10th, there will be a rare, uncontrolled reentry.” Report from Satellite Watcher Marcolang Groke of the Netherlands. He has long been a telescopic view of the false, earthly surrounding Cosmos 482 remaining.
The future is a re-entering of the Cosmos 482 Descent Craft, the landing module of the erroneous Soviet Venella mission that failed over 53 years ago.
Hot topics
And one hot topic to ponder is whether a landing module intended for custom-made Venus to withstand reentry via the thick Venus atmosphere may reentry through the Earth’s atmosphere and survive.
Former Soviet Union Cosmos 482 was a sister survey of Venella 8. In July 1972, the spacecraft became the second ship to successfully surface Venus. Before succumbing to the harsh planetary state of that planet, we relayed data for 50 minutes and 11 seconds from the surface of Venus hell.
Meanwhile, drifting around the Earth and heading towards its apparent re-entry of Earth is the remains of the lost 482 of the universe from space.
The Soviet-style gimmick was built to withstand the heat that plunges into the thick atmosphere of a planet covered in Venus clouds. Venus Lander’s Mass stayed at 1,091 pounds. (495 kilograms), with significant thermal protection.
Hard Landing
It is uncertain when and where whimsical hardware will return to Earth. With a 51.7 degree orbital tilt, reentry can occur anywhere between latitudes 52 N and 52 seconds, Langbroek explains.
Over the past few months, along with colleague Dominique Dirk, Langbroke has shaped the re-entry model of Tudat’s Cosmos 482, the Tu Delft Astrodynamics Toolbox. Tudat is an open source, multi-platform Astrodynamics software developed and maintained at the Faculty of Aerospace at Delft Institute of Technology, where Langbroek works.
As Langbroek reports, the Venus probe had a parachute at the top of the Venus vibe, but “but I would now assume that if I don’t bet on its function and survive the re-entry, it would fall violently.”
Langbroek actually modeled a re-entry, expecting an end speed in a sequence of approximately 145 miles (65-70 meters/s) per hour (65-70 meters/s) on ground or ocean impacts.
So can this universe junk survive the hot foot descent from where it was fired to its home planet?
“The risks involved aren’t particularly high, but they’re not zero,” Langbroke points out. “With masses of less than 500 kg and masses of 1 meter size, the risk is similar to the risk of impact in metstones.”
Look forward to it…and lift your head!
