Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days ...

Specifically, that would make the object a key component of Kosmos 482, which launched in March 1972 from Baikonur on top of a Molniya rocket with the intention of getting to the harsh alien world.

The spacecraft separated into four pieces, two of which fell back to Earth shortly thereafter. The other two, believed to be ...

Science Alert reported on Friday that Kosmos-482, a 500-kilogram (1,102-pound) Venus lander launched by the former USSR on March 31, 1972, aboard a Molniya rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ...

The Long March 6A rocket lifted off at 6:51 p.m. Eastern ... Shiyan-10 satellites, meanwhile, entered Molniya orbits. The 50-meter-long, 530-metric-ton Long March 6A, developed by SAST, is ...

The craft acted as a launch platform in space - complete with a rocket engine and probe ... Kosmos 482 was launched by a Soviet Molniya booster on March 31, 1972, as part of a mission to Venus.