Battered Soviet spacecraft will plummet to Earth decades after failed mission. - NBCNewsMACH
space probe launched from Kazakhstan in 1972, Leonid Brezhnev was in the Kremlin and the Soviet Union was vying with the U.S. for supremacy in space.
“Every time it goes around the Earth, it loses a little bit of speed and doesn’t go up as high next time,” he added. With each orbit, the drag from Earth’s thin upper atmosphere shaves a tiny bit of speed from the probe: “Eventually, the orbit will become too low.”Russian space historian Pavel Shubin agrees that Kosmos 482 is likely to survive in orbit for a few more years.
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