Kosmos 482
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From: Germany
Thank you, I was at those times out on the fields (Germany) trying to see something, but no, nothing. Was still outside the dense atmosphere I suppose. That means it indeed must have progressed until the Indian Ocean at least and then the West coast of Australia. Maybe some pilots have observed it?
https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/...k-1024x659.png
The COIW (point of free terminal fall) at time 6:37 UTC and the track line before until Pakistan, and after until New Zealand are the relevant track portions, where you might have seen a shooting star.
Observe the line through COIW point and there the time stamps for the positions along the time.
I have little hope, but if a crew has seen it, than the traffic towards Australia, Singapore etc. at a time 6:20 UTC (India Subcontinent) until 6:45 (Perth to Adeleide/Melbourne traffic
https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/...k-1024x659.png
The COIW (point of free terminal fall) at time 6:37 UTC and the track line before until Pakistan, and after until New Zealand are the relevant track portions, where you might have seen a shooting star.
Observe the line through COIW point and there the time stamps for the positions along the time.
I have little hope, but if a crew has seen it, than the traffic towards Australia, Singapore etc. at a time 6:20 UTC (India Subcontinent) until 6:45 (Perth to Adeleide/Melbourne traffic
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From: Germany
That are not radar trackers like fr24. They are predictors with a starting point in the past (orbital data set from NORAD each several hours recalculated, I mean TLE if you want to google) and the model sometimes does not include atmospheric decay,
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Status 10 May 09:56 CEST
As the descent craft was not spotted by radar over Germany at the expected 07:32 UTC / 09:32 CEST pass, it is most likely that the reentry has already occurred.
As the descent craft was not spotted by radar over Germany at the expected 07:32 UTC / 09:32 CEST pass, it is most likely that the reentry has already occurred.
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Roscosmos on Telegram via Google Translate
The Kosmos-482 spacecraft deorbited and fell into the ocean
The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in 1972, ceased to exist, deorbiting and falling into the Indian Ocean
The descent of the spacecraft was monitored by the Automated Warning System for Hazardous Situations in Near-Earth Space.
According to calculations by specialists from TsNIIMash (part of Roscosmos), the spacecraft entered the dense layers of the atmosphere at 9:24 Moscow time, 560 km west of Middle Andaman Island, and fell into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta.
The spacecraft was launched in the spring of 1972 to study Venus, but due to a malfunction of the booster block, it remained in a high elliptical orbit of the Earth, gradually approaching the planet.
The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in 1972, ceased to exist, deorbiting and falling into the Indian Ocean
The descent of the spacecraft was monitored by the Automated Warning System for Hazardous Situations in Near-Earth Space.
According to calculations by specialists from TsNIIMash (part of Roscosmos), the spacecraft entered the dense layers of the atmosphere at 9:24 Moscow time, 560 km west of Middle Andaman Island, and fell into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta.
The spacecraft was launched in the spring of 1972 to study Venus, but due to a malfunction of the booster block, it remained in a high elliptical orbit of the Earth, gradually approaching the planet.
