Venera-4.© RIA Novosti © Aleksandr Mokletsov/RIA Novosti
A russian spacecraft launched in 1972 crashed in the Indian Ocean, reported Russian space agency Roskosmos.Space probe 482 orbited the Earth for over 5 decades after a failed mission to Venus.
Roskosmos reported that the spacecraft entered the Earth's atmosphere again on Saturday morning and fell into the ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia.The fall was monitored by the Automated informing strategy for Hazardous Situations in Near-Earth Space.
No harm or injuries were reported.Space 482 was launched on 31 March 1972 as part of a russian Union program to research Venus.
However, due to the failure of the advanced phase of the carrier rocket, the spacecraft failed to escape Earth's gravity and remained in elliptical orbit.The probe's lander module, designed to withstand the hard conditions of Venus, was built from a durable titanium coating.
This construction increased the likelihood that parts of the spacecraft would last the reentry into the atmosphere.The russian Union Vener Program, active from 1961 to the early 1980s, reached respective milestones in the exploration of planets.
Interestingly, in 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to send data from the surface of another planet, and Venera 9 sent the first images of Venus' surface in 1975.
Overall, the program successfully landed on Venus with multiple probes, providing valuable data on its atmosphere and surface conditions.According to Roskosmos, there are inactive thousands of inactive spacecraft in orbit of Earth.
In the last year alone, 1981 space objects entered the atmosphere, both natural and artificial.
"In fact, about 5 objects fall to Earth all day, and all seventh 1 weighs over 500 kg.
We can watch them at night as "falling stars".
Cases of material harm are rare.
No human injuries were reported, as the agency's press service noticed earlier this week.
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source:https://www.rt.com/russia/617346-ussr-spacecraft-falls-ocean/
