POLAND: COSMOS 482 probe entered Earth's atmosphere outside Poland
12.05.2025 updated: 12.05.2025
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The half-ton Soviet probe COSMOS 482 entered Earth's atmosphere on Saturday. The Polish Space Agency reported that there are no signals that it happened over Poland.
POLSA spokeswoman Agnieszka Gapys told PAP that the last flyby of the COSMOS 482 probe over the European sensor "took place at 08:04 CEST (Central European Summer Time, applicable in Poland - PAP), which is assumed to be the middle of the deorbit window, with an uncertainty of +/- 20 minutes."
The next flyby of the COSMOS 482 probe over European sensors was expected at around 9:50 a.m.
"Currently, the object has not been recorded by available data sources in Europe, which means that it entered the Earth's atmosphere," POLSA reported.
As emphasized in the press release, at the moment "there are no signals that the object could enter the Earth's atmosphere over Poland".
The USSR launched the COSMOS 482 probe - 53 years ago, in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus. Due to a failure, the spacecraft never reached the planet. Since then, the probe has been orbiting the Earth, gradually lowering its altitude.
The probe was predicted to survive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere because it was built to withstand flight through Venus's carbon dioxide-dense atmosphere.
According to the POLSA Space Safety Department, the object weighed 495 kg. (PAP)
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