A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus
  • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 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
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      21 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.