Comment on Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I hope they find it. If it didn’t hit water it would be a really neat part of space history. I’m assuming it didn’t kill anyone as we would have heard about it by now. Kind of surprising we don’t have a pinpoint location or anything, I always assumed we had some radar net that would be able to track entry objects but maybe that went away with the former cold war.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Unplanned crash, lots of unpredictable trajectory changes when/if things break off not to mention entry angle likely isn’t the one designed.
We know its crashing because of detection systems but trajectory predicting is a lot harder once it reenters atmosphere.