Soviet Spacecraft Falls into the Indian Ocean

The Soviet automatic spacecraft, launched 53 years ago and never reaching Venus, has fallen into the Indian Ocean. This was reported by Roscosmos.

The statement reads: "The spacecraft Cosmos-482, launched in 1972, has exited its orbit and has been destroyed after falling into the Indian Ocean." The spacecraft entered the dense layers of the atmosphere at 9:24 AM Moscow time, approximately 560 km west of the Great Andaman Islands, and fell into the Indian Ocean, west of Jakarta.

The exit of the spacecraft from orbit was monitored by the automated system for warning of hazardous situations in near-Earth space.