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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 |
Originally Posted by TWT
(Post 11881769)
This site has a display that appears to be still tracking it, as to its accuracy, who knows ?
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Despite the ticking clocks, the red dot in post #38 above seems to be stuck on the eastern edge of the Caspian Sea.
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ESA Again
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. |
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. |
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