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Apparently it crashed near Java in the Indian Ocean [0]. Any news on retrieval efforts? [0] https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/17407 https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/17407
by thenthenthen 1y ago
Apparently it crashed near Java in the Indian Ocean [0]. Any news on retrieval efforts?
[0] https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/17407 https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/17407
- rhcom2 1y agoComing down at "145 miles per hour-plus" and a "mass of just under 500 kg and 1-meter size" I would imagine there are just pieces out there now.
- SequoiaHope 1y agoApparently it was quite dense as to be able to survive the Venetian atmosphere so there has been speculation it may stay somewhat intact.
- rhcom2 1y agoIt was suppose to come down with a parachute but fingers crossed.
- perihelions 1y ago- "Venetian" That one means "having to do with Venice". Of Venus would be "Venusian", "Venereal" (yes, really), or "Cytherean". Or, one of a dozen others—it's a Greek god-name; there's millennia of culture to drawn on. There's an entire Wikipedia entry devoted to this adjective question, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytherean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytherean
- SequoiaHope 1y agoOh right! I did know that but typo’d it thanks.
- ForOldHack 1y agoAny thoughts about sunken vs sank?
- squigz 1y agoThat Italian atmosphere is really rough!
- dotancohen 1y agoSmells worse than the venereal atmosphere the craft was designed for.
- deepsun 1y agoThat's nothing compared to Venus. There it's 500C with sulfuric atmosphere.
- pinewurst 1y agoA lot like New Delhi...
- bell-cot 1y agoAnd ~1,300 psi at the surface, and a few other features. On the upside - undeveloped property is readily available, and quite affordable.
- perihelions 1y ago- "On the upside - undeveloped property is readily available, and quite affordable". It's a dry heat anyway.
- estreeper 1y agoIt wouldn’t be HN if your joke wasn’t met with pedantry, so I’ll mention the heat and pressure at the surface means the atmosphere is a supercritical fluid of 96.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5% nitrogen. Buyers should have all the facts
- sph 1y ago> quite affordable The commute to there is the real problem
- deepsun 1y agoToo expensive. It's very hard to find even an aircraft carrier at the surface, ocean is just too big. Metallic non-moving things at the bottom is easier, but it still often takes years to find a large sank ship, yet alone a small round spacecraft. But there are many ocean hunters ready to jump on the assignment, if you secure funding.
- nancyminusone 1y agoDarn. Where's an inexpensive carbon fiber based submarine when you need one?
- asdefghyk 1y agoThere have been searches for years for MH370 airline in Indian ocean and it has not been found. I guess the problem there is getting a more accurate? location where it came down...
- asdefghyk 1y agoAny information on ocean depth in that area? Or did it float? for a while? From NASA article - https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1972-023A https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id... Apparently, it broke up too 4 pieces soon after launch time and it was the lander that was circling earth for 53 years.. From https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395631/a-soviet-era-space-probe-crashed-back-to-earth-after-more-than-50-years-in-orbit#:~:text=It%20said%20Kosmos%20482%20reentered,a%20post%20on%20its%20website. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395631/a-soviet-era-sp... "...The Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a Telegram post that the spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere Saturday morning at 2:24 a.m. ET and landed in the Indian Ocean somewhere west of Jakarta, Indonesia. It said Kosmos 482 reentered the atmosphere about 350 miles west of Middle Andaman Island off the coast of Myanmar. ..." NASA gave the same reentry time and landing location for the spacecraft in a post on its website...."
- RetroTechie 1y ago>Any information on ocean depth in that area? Multiple km's deep in most of that area. That's if it missed the Sunda trench, which goes down to more than 7km in places (hint: it's a subduction zone where tectonic plates slide into Earth's interior. So ehm... deep). Unlike eg. the Gulf of Thailand (max. 85m according to Wikipedia) or large parts of South Chinese Sea, which are very shallow in comparison.
- alserio 1y agoNear Java? From memory, it will definetely be garbage collected, can't say when.