It has been expected for 53 years … and finally fell to Earth!

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Lerato Khumalo

Kosmos 482, which was sent into space 52 years ago by the Soviet Union, was stuck in orbit before completing his mission. The vehicle, which has been expected to fall in a controlled manner for years, finally entered the atmosphere again and disintegrated and crashed into the Indian Ocean, 560 kilometers west of the Andaman Islands.

Roscosmos, in his written statement, Kosmos-482 spacecraft information about the fate of the information.

Kosmos-482 today entered the atmosphere at 09.24 TSI said in a statement, the spacecraft fell to the Indian Ocean in the west of Indonesia.

In a statement, the spacecraft was thrown into space in 1972 for the discovery of Venus, but the Earth remained in the elliptical orbit of the Earth due to a fault and then returned to the planet.

Marek Ziebart, a professor at the University College London, said that the situation was unusual, and that the satellites from the orbit tend to burn in the atmosphere of the planet due to drift.

Designed to withstand Venus’ acidic atmosphere and extreme temperature, the spacecraft designed to withstand extreme conditions, very highly likely to the surface of the world as one piece.