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    A 1970s Soviet spacecraft built to withstand Venus's thick atmosphere could crash to Earth this weekend
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    A 1970s Soviet spacecraft built to withstand Venus’s thick atmosphere could crash to Earth this weekend

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    1. turdolas on

      In summary. Look up when outside in those dates for potential spacecraft crashing on your head. They say odds are in billions but that’s odds for you personally, not odds of hitting someone in general. Pretty much they’re indirectly saying the odds of it crashing onto some unlucky person ain’t worth the money to shift it’s direction.

    3. Durable_me on

      can ‘t they send a small probe up to catch up with it and attach it to the probe so it can be de-orbited controlled ?

    4. HungryKing9461 on

      [https://aerospace.org/reentries/6073](https://aerospace.org/reentries/6073)

      |Predicted Reentry Time|10 May 2025 03:37 UTC ± 16 hours|
      |:-|:-|

      The yellow and blue lines show the points on the planet where it could land — e.g. it could land in Egpyt, but definitely not near Cairo.

      This hasn’t been updated in a couple of days, though, so that 32-hour window, and thus the amount of lines on the map, could be smaller by now.

      —

      Edit:

      Since posting it has changed to

      |Predicted Reentry Time|10 May 2025 05:54 UTC ± 9 hours|
      |:-|:-|

      And the amount of lines has reduced.

    5. monchota on

      *with a shild that would deploy and entering Venus’s at a cert angle. None of that will be happening, it could survive or it most likely will just burn up.

    6. Bceverly on

      Good news is that if it does, the lens cap won’t pop off of the camera…