My own plot of the final orbit, showing the Roskosmos estimate of the path between reentry and impact in purple. I guess that Kosmos-482 SA reentered somewhere along this track between India and the ocean south of Australia.
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Any chance that, assuming it survived reentry in more or less one piece, it would have floated? I know some of those probes were designed to do so, and if it washed up somewhere and could be recovered, that'd be cool to see in a museum.
And quite a few years in space bombarded by Sun radiation and external heating and cooling guarantees anything that would’ve made it seal is quite fried by now!
And, by international agreement, if it is found intact, it is still Russian property. Maybe not so much if it's sitting somewhere on the abyssal plain at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
Still crickets from the Americans after 3 days? I assume that's because they don't want eyes on their capabilities during a shooting war in the region? Raises the serious question how a reentry might have been interpreted if it happened over Kashmir at that time, and during a crisis.
Eerily close to where #Skylab plopped when I was a kid in the 1970s... Space Cowboys are aiming at us. 😉 Don't make us send out another littering fine!
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Comme par hasard !
Mass 495kg
Diameter 1m
=> volume 0.524m³ or 524kg Water displacement.
But it has to be water tight.
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