Vaguely recall someone getting a good photo of Kosmos 482 and showing it was still the complete vehicle with the capsule still attached.
Depends when the photo was taken of course.
I note that Anatoly Zak says "With less degree of certainty, it can be speculated that the Venus lander is still attached to the main probe while its upper stage is not" (my own emphasis).
1972-023E(2018 July 09)52.05° 112.39min 202-2471 km
Quote from: Alter Sachse on 07/12/2018 07:17 am1972-023E(2018 July 09)52.05° 112.39min 202-2471 km2018 Oct 0152.06° 112.17min 202-2451 km
This post made me aware of the Venus landers which I didn't even know existed. Amazing! They had to make machinery at earth temperatures that would work after they had been heated up to hundreds of degrees celcius, causing the metals to expand. I thought that the technology to put a machine on the surface of Venus was decades in the future but it was actually decades in the past.http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htmhttp://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera09_Processed.jpghttp://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera10_Processed.jpghttp://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera13_Camera1.jpghttp://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera13_Camera2.jpghttp://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera14_Camera1.jpghttp://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera14_Camera2.jpg
Quote from: Alter Sachse on 07/09/2018 12:37 pmCosmos 482 burnt down 1981 May 5 in the earth's atmosphere.The object in Earth orbit is probably the landing capsule, which was separated 1972 July 29.If it is the landing capsule I wonder if it'll make it to the surface in one piece given it was meant to survive the conditions on Venus. Not that it will be found.
Cosmos 482 burnt down 1981 May 5 in the earth's atmosphere.The object in Earth orbit is probably the landing capsule, which was separated 1972 July 29.
It concerned an unusual object launched 47 years ago, called the Kosmos 482 Descent Craft (1972-023E, CSpOC nr 6073). Word was that it was about to reenter into the atmosphere, maybe even this year. But will it? Short answer: almost certainly not.The source of the prediction is attributed to Thomas Dorman in the Space.com article, but how the prediction was done is not clear from the news coverage. On the request of David Dickinson, who was preparing an article on the topic for Universe Today, I made my own assessment of the issue. I looked at the orbital decay of 1972-023E since 1973 and did some GMAT modelling to gain insight into how the orbital decay will develop in the future.As I will show in this post, my modelling suggests the Kosmos 482 Descent Craft is not to come down yet for several years.
Spaceship of the advanced ancient civilization is about to return to EarthThe descent module of the Venera 8 probe unlucky backup -- object 3B №671 (named "Cosmos-482") would fall to Earth in early May, after spending half a century in the orbit.Launched in 1972, the spherical capsule today rotates in an orbit with 52 degrees inclination, an apogee of 393 kilometers and a low perigee of 160 kilometers, located above the Northern Hemisphere. This allows us to assume that around May 10, the object would dive into the atmosphere above our hemisphere.Since it has been empirically established that reentry time estimation accuracy is approximately equal to one tenth of the remaining period of ballistic existence, nothing can be said definitely about the spacecraft descent area (besides that it would occur south of the 52nd parallel). Moreover, impact time and location prediction is heavily affected by solar activity variations.It is very likely that the rugged lander, designed for a long descent into the Venus atmosphere, would reach our planet's surface intact... and even the parachute may open IPM ISON experts are monitoring the uncontrolled reentry of 3B type spacecraft. The animation has been filmed on April 9 by S. Shmalts using ORI-22 telescope at the Castelgrande Observatory.
