Tracking the reentry of COSMOS 482 - Failed USSR Venus probe

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Tracking the reentry of COSMOS 482 - Failed USSR Venus probe

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jn1 9 months ago, 10 May 2025

jn1

2683 posts

10 May 2025 2:13pm

Hours of fun

www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=6073

Unique that this craft was designed to enter Venus, a planet similar in size to Earth, but an order of magnitude greater in atmospheric pressure.

poor relative

9106 posts

10 May 2025 1:56pm

Theres more fun to be had watching things enter Uranus

saltiest1

NSW

2562 posts

10 May 2025 4:43pm

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poor relative said..
Theres more fun to be had watching things enter Uranus

See this is why we can't have nice things.

remery

3709 posts

10 May 2025 3:28pm

Watching things enter the Mound of Venus has a certain allure.

myscreenname

2296 posts

10 May 2025 5:12pm

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poor relative said..
Theres more fun to be had watching things enter Uranus

Do use mirrors to watch in real time or do you position your phone to record and watch later?

jn1

2683 posts

10 May 2025 8:26pm

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poor relative said..
Theres more fun to be had watching things enter Uranus

Each to their own PR

Lost contact over Germany. This area was looking to be the perigee last time I looked about 2pm today.

FYI, this is a pretty cool to watch controlled re-entry (Orion). This mission appears to be using a technique called feathering:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reentry_video_as_Orion_returns_from_Artemis_I.webm

bjw

QLD

3687 posts

11 May 2025 10:06am

So a metallic Russian Probe is re-entering Uranus.

We've all seen this before.

jn1

2683 posts

11 May 2025 10:03am

Not mine.

Froth Goth

1223 posts

11 May 2025 12:10pm

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bjw said..
So a metallic Russian Probe is * ~~re-entering~~ Uranus.

We've all seen this before
invaded*