Submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/venus-earth-soviet-experts-european-space-agency-b2748464.html
A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus
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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.
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.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Somehow, Stalin has returned.