Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

A SOVIET spacecraft once destined for Venus is expected to crash back to Earth on Saturday after more than 50 years stuck in ...

Citing potential for rapid deployment of weaponisable satellites, military article cautions US transport craft programme ...

A Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, fell into the Indian Ocean on Saturday morning, 53 years after it failed to reach Venus, ...

Soviet space missions typically involved putting spacecraft into an Earth "parking orbit". The craft acted as a launch platform in space - complete with a rocket engine and probe. The probe would ...

Now the spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere between May 8 and 11 - after 53 years in space. It was designed to survive the extreme conditions of Venus’s dense and hot atmosphere. The ...

The U.S. Space Force reported that its unmanned spaceplane, X-37B, used aerobraking. This test demonstrated the craft’s agility and maneuverability. Another application for aerobraking is to ...

This process is conceptually similar to how the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B used aerobraking in early 2025. The U.S. Space Force reported that its unmanned spaceplane, X-37B, used aerobraking. This test ...

JIUQUAN -- China's Shenzhou XIX crewed spaceship separated from the space station combination at 4 am (Beijing Time) on Wednesday, and the astronauts aboard — Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang ...