#Latest news with #atmosphericentryNew York Times08-05-2025ScienceNew York TimesQuote of the Day: Spacecraft Lost in 1972 Is Coming Back to Earth'It's going to get its moment in atmospheric entry — albeit on the wrong planet.' JONATHAN MCDOWELL, an astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who maintains a catalog of space objects, on the Kosmos-482, a half-ton Soviet-era craft which never made it to its planned destination of Venus and was expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this weekend.
New York Times08-05-2025ScienceNew York TimesQuote of the Day: Spacecraft Lost in 1972 Is Coming Back to Earth'It's going to get its moment in atmospheric entry — albeit on the wrong planet.' JONATHAN MCDOWELL, an astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who maintains a catalog of space objects, on the Kosmos-482, a half-ton Soviet-era craft which never made it to its planned destination of Venus and was expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this weekend.