
A lifeless Soviet area probe from 1972 is falling again to Earth
Get the Common Science day by day e-newsletter💡 In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of area probes destined for Venus. Whereas the USSR’s Venera 8 efficiently reached its vacation spot, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling Kosmos 482 craft by no means made it previous Earth’s orbit. The long-dead probe’s stays have…