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2025-05-07 Science & Technology

Decades-old Soviet spacecraft to crash into Earth's atmosphere this week

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [106 views ] Top

#1 I'm old enough to remember when Skylab (See the "Re-entry and debris" section. came home.

I remember hearing reports that some people were so frightened of dying from being struck by Skylab debris that they elected to commit suicide.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-05-07 00:12|| 2025-05-07 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Kosmos 482

The 3MV planetary probe (short for 3rd generation Mars-Venus) is a designation for a common design used by early Soviet unmanned probes to Mars and Venus.

Solar, not nuclear.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-07 10:55|| 2025-05-07 10:55|| Front Page Top

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