The Soviet Union's 482 millimeter Kosmos satellite is said to have fallen 560 kilometers west of Middle Andaman Island, Indian Ocean, west of Jakarta, Roscosmos said. Earlier, ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission.. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday, May ...

May 10 (UPI) --A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more than 50 years crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Russian officials confirmed. "The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in ...

The launch earlier this month was Russia's first since 1976 when it was part of the Soviet Union. The crash comes after Roscosmos reported an "abnormal situation" that its specialists were ...

This is the first Russian Moon mission since 1976, when the USSR had launched its Luna-24 craft. The Russian state space corporation Roscosmos plans to make Luna-25 the first mission in history to ...

While America had won the race to the moon, the Soviet Union, through its Venera program, kept its sights on Venus, Earth’s twisted sister. From 1961 to 1984, the Soviets launched 29 spacecraft ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. This one never made it beyond orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...