Kosmos 482: Soviet spacecraft will likely fall to Earth this week

Maddie MolloyClimate & Science reporterGetty ImagesThe Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flightPart of a Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to crash back to Earth this week after being stuck in orbit for more than half a century.Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus but it never escaped low Earth orbit and separated into four…