Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 11 (Xinhua) Russia's National Aerospace Corporation said on the 10th that after 53 years of orbiting Earth, the spacecraft "Cosmic 482" that failed to launch and head to Venus in the Soviet era broke out of orbit that morning and fell into the Indian Ocean.

　　According to Russian News Agency, the Russian State Space Corporation released the above news on the social platform "Telecom" that day. "Cosmic 482" entered the Earth's atmosphere at 9:24 am on the 10th, Moscow time, and then fell into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia.

　　The spacecraft was launched in 1972 and was originally scheduled to land on Venus for exploration missions, but failed to reach Venus due to a rocket thruster failure and was in orbital for a long time.

　　According to the Associated Press, most of the "Cosmic 482" fell off in the 10 years after it took off, and in the end only the remaining spherical lander with a diameter of about 1 meter remained. The outer layer of this lander is wrapped in titanium and weighs nearly 500 kilograms. As its orbit becomes smaller and smaller, the remnants of "Cosmic 482" eventually fail to withstand the earth's gravity, crash into the Indian Ocean, and completely disappear on the radar.

　　Venus is the most temperature planet in the solar system. Some experts say that "Cosmic 482" was designed and manufactured to land on this planet and can withstand extremely high temperatures, so it will not melt all the high heat generated when reentering the Earth's atmosphere, and will cause wreckage to fall. However, the researchers say the chances of the wreckage hitting a person are extremely low. (Yuan Yuan)

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