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[Thunder Chicken]

Does anyone know the diameter of the lander pressure vessel, and if it was meant to be gas-tight on Venus? I am wondering if the density of the lander is low enough for it to float should it fall into the ocean. Terminal velocity is something like 160 mph, but the thing was designed to survive on Venus. Would be interesting to get a relic of the Soviet space program.

 

[MarkWatney2015]

It should be similar to the landers of Venera 7 and 8, about 500 kg (landing mass) and can withstand up to 180 atmospheres of pressure. They overstrengthened the hull since at the time no one knew the actual surface pressure on Venus was

 

[MaxBuzz]

"Venera-8" is designed to "dive" into the planet's dense atmosphere. maximum temperature value 493°C

 

[Thunder Chicken]

It should be similar to the landers of Venera 7 and 8, about 500 kg (landing mass) and can withstand up to 180 atmospheres of pressure. They overstrengthened the hull since at the time no one knew the actual surface pressure on Venus wasView attachment 43467

Hmm, going off this image and estimating roughly 1 meter diameter and 500 kg mass, the mean density works out to be slightly less than the density of water or seawater. But it's not exactly spherical and my diameter estimate is probably not correct, so it is difficult to say whether it will float or not.

It would be quite something if it survived re-entry and landed in an ocean and was positively buoyant.

It would be quite something else if it happened to be denser than warm surface sea water, but less dense than cold sea water. The whales and squid could have a close encounter of the communist kind.

 

[GLS]

1 week left

https://twitter.com/x/status/1919024176607662101

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1920026815873106364

Another prediction, with groundtrack: https://aerospace.org/reentries/6073

 

[MaxBuzz]

The fall of the Soviet automatic station "Cosmos-482" to Earth is expected on May 9-10
Five objects fall to Earth every day, every seventh one weighing more than 500 kg.

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[MaxBuzz]

Venera lander

Venera-4 is present in the Mir station complex addon

 

[GLS]

Five objects fall to Earth every day, every seventh one weighing more than 500 kg.

And none of them is designed to survive the Venusian atmosphere.

 

[Urwumpe]

And none of them is designed to survive the Venusian atmosphere.

More specifically, it was designed to withstand 300 g and 100 atm of total pressure. Unless it aged really badly in those decades in space, it could survive the reentry, the near spherical capsule should be self-stabilizing. The outer layers of the heatshield might have become a little more brittle than usual though, but that shouldn't harm it. If the parachute is deployed or not should be more important for its survival, since the parachute container is a possible weak spot during reentry.

 

[GLS]

Groundtracks now showing up

https://twitter.com/x/status/1920037546614006231

https://twitter.com/x/status/1920096655753248780

 

[Urwumpe]

More updated reentry data.

Kosmos 482 Descent Craft reentry forecasts [PERIODICALLY UPDATED]

classified military Space (spy satellites) and Missiles

sattrackcam.blogspot.com

 

[Urwumpe]

Final update of the TU Braunschweig is out before reentry:

„Kosmos 482“ vor Wiedereintritt – TU Braunschweig berechnet Eintrittszeitraum - TU Braunschweig | Blogs

Wiedereintritt der verbliebenen Kapsel der Raumsonde in wenigen Tagen Forschende der TU Braunschweig haben den Zeitraum mit Hilfe selbst entwickelter

magazin.tu-braunschweig.de

Still lots of uncertainty, but at least Africa is safe.

 

[GLS]

The end is near

https://twitter.com/x/status/1920882314336231522

https://twitter.com/x/status/1920856450655539236

https://twitter.com/x/status/1920886502017401257

 

[Thunder Chicken]

If it lands in Australia, who would they fine for littering?

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1920984142042316990

 

[GLS]

... and gone

https://twitter.com/x/status/1921123642886271388

 

[MaxBuzz]

Cosmos-482 spacecraft left orbit and fell into the ocean
According to calculations by specialists from JSC TsNIIMash (part of Roscosmos), the device entered the dense layers of the atmosphere at 9:24 Moscow time, 560 km west of Middle Andaman Island, and fell in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/41502/

 

[Urwumpe]

It likely landed somewhere between eastern Europe and India, a German radar had a final contact with the ex-probe at 6:04 UTC.

EU SST closely monitors re-entry of space object Cosmos-482 Descent Craft

Due to its inclination of approximately 51.95 degrees, the object could re-enter within a latitude band of ±52 degrees, covering a vast area of the Earth’s surface. Most of this area is ocean or uninhabited land, so the statistical probability of an impact on the ground in populated areas was...

www.eusst.eu

 

[GLS]

Well, it fell somewhere

https://twitter.com/x/status/1921208599423930469