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In about 2 weeks from now, an unusual #uncontrolled #reentry will happen: a 53-year-old landing capsule from a failed Soviet #Venera mission stuck in Earth orbit.
It will likely survive reentry.
More info, including reentry forecasts, in this blogpost:
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/04/kosmos-842-descent-craft-reentry.html
In about 2 weeks from now, an unusual #uncontrolled #reentry will happen: a 53-year-old landing capsule from a failed Soviet #Venera mission stuck in Earth orbit.
It will likely survive reentry.
More info, including reentry forecasts, in this blogpost:
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/04/kosmos-842-descent-craft-reentry.html
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Here is some 4.5-year-old footage of the object in question, taken with my tracking camera from Leiden, the Netherlands:
https://vimeo.com/707510470
Additional backgrounds on this object, its history and its reentry in this article I wrote three years ago for The Space Review:
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4384/1