World map with tracks of the spacecraft over 6 orbits in the 8 hour window.

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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 05:29:55 JST AkaSci 🛰️

   You are all aware of the uncontrolled reentry of the failed Soviet era COSMOS 482 Venera Venus lander tonight.

   Here is the trajectory map from Aerospace Corp. with some added annotations to help make sense of it. It shows 6 orbital tracks over 8 hours centered around the expected reentry time. It will strike the ground along one of these tracks, but not between them. Reentry will occur near the northern end of the orbit.

   Launch date: Mar 31, 1972
   Weight: ~495 kg

   https://aerospace.org/reentries/6073
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