After 53 Years, a Failed Soviet Venus Spacecraft Is Crashing Back to Earth

The 53-year-old Venus Probe, which could not escape orbit from the lower ground, is expected to be an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. The parts of the space ship, which are built to endure extreme heat, can survive the descent and accident on earth.

The Lander Modulu, a former Soviet Space Ship, in the second week of May, in Leiden, a satellite watcher located in Leiden, the Netherlands, is expected to restart the Earth’s atmosphere. “This is a place prepared to pass through the Venus atmosphere, restart with the Earth atmosphere and wrote a blog of Langbroek actualize. “The risks of the presence are not especially high, but not zero.”

The space was launched from 482, March 31, 1972 in Kazakhstan from the Baikonur Space Space Port. The mission was an attempt to reach the Venus of the Soviet Space Program, but could not speed enough speed to enter the burning hot planet. Venus’ was left off a blotcot of a fault that resulted in a non-sufficient engine burning to reach the orbit or left a space ship in an elliptical land orbit Nasa. Space ship split into four different pieces, two of the two different fragments, New Zealand, two days later repeated with New Zealand. Meanwhile, two parts with a load of cargo and the allocated up-stage engine, 6.089 miles (210 km in 210 km) entered into a higher orbit.

The failed mission consisted of a port of land, which forms a spherical pressure ship from a carrier bus and 1,000 pounds (495 kilograms) in one place. Given the mass, “Risks are like the influence of meteorite,” said Langbroek.

It is difficult to clearly determine if the spacecraft will be sent again. Langbroek estimates that it will happen again on May 10, but a more accurate date will be clearer as the recurrence date approaches. It is difficult to close a clear date, because the sun is now in the active phase and expand the Earth’s atmosphere; Orbiting facilities create more atmospheric drags and cause them to reopen them faster.

It is difficult to determine the remains of the space ship will remain on earth, because it brings and breaks the atmosphere again and separate. In general, the chances of space gabric litter in an area where the settlement is located, it is more likely to fall into a remote part of the ocean. However, uncontrolled reentries create a small risk that should not be ignored or ignored.