Raiders of the Lost Venus Probe: a post-mortem of an interesting reentry and the confusion it left

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review at 27 May 2025, 11:58 UTC

Earlier this month a Soviet-era Venus mission, stranded in Earth orbit since its launch in 1972, finally reentered. Marco Langbroek and Dominic Dirkx discuss the difficulty determining exactly when and where it reentered.

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• T2Raiders of the Lost Venus Probe: a post-mortem of an interesting reentry and the confusion it leftSpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review27 May 2025, 11:58