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Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry
That soon-to-reenter Cosmos 482 is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery provides some interesting details.
Leonard David
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory careened into the Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, Nov. 4, almost 22 years after launch. The U.S. Space Force confirmed that the Swift spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at 7:39 a.m. EST Wednesday over the North Sumatra region of Indonesia, at approximately 3.4 degrees north…
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US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward orbital record
That Earth-circling U.S. military X-37B robotic space drone is closing in on a new long-duration record.
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How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
Over the last number of years, our planet has become encircled by Starlink, OneWeb, and other “megaconstellation” satellites.