The ship, Cosmos-482launched 53 years ago to Venus, It ended up trapped in land orbit after a failure in its launch.
According to the updated prediction of the Space Waste Office Of the ESA, the re -entry will occur at 09:12 (European central time) on Saturday, with a margin of uncertainty of ± 13.67 hours. This means that The capsule could enter the atmosphere at any time between Friday night and Saturday night.
Recentrada de la Nave Cosmos-482
The agency indicates that the point of impact is within a wide strip of the planet, between 52 degrees of north and southern latitude of Ecuador, which covers a large part of the earth’s surface. As the re -entry date approaches, estimates are expected to be more accurately.
Cosmos-482 It is a decrease capsule of Venera Soviet Programdesigned to land in Venus. However, his launch vehicle never managed to escape the land gravity, leaving the probe orbiting the earth since 1972.
NASA had already warned this week that the orbit of the ship was declining quicklyand that its reentry could occur between May 7 and 13.
The US agency stressed that, since The capsule was built to withstand the extreme conditions of the venusine atmosphereit is not ruled out that parts of the ship survive the re -entry and impact on the earth’s surface.
ESA explained that, at the estimated reentry time, the capsule will be located about 10 kilometers from altitude over an area called COIW (center of the impact window), although The exact location where the remains could fall is still uncertain. This is because any variation at the time of re -entry would also change the position of the ship in its orbital trajectory.
The next updates of the ESA will reduce the margin of uncertainty, while continuing the monitoring of this historical object that, half a century later, re -captures international attention.
Follow the position of the recentrada live here.
Fuente: NASA in Spanish
This entry was published in 10 May 2025 by Francisco Martín León
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