The Soviet Union told the rest of the world that Salyut 2 was a civilian space station built for scientific research, but it was secretly intended to be a crewed military reconnaissance station.

A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March ... latest projections center on the early ...

It's too early to know where the half-ton mass of metal might come down or how much of it will survive reentry, according to space debris ... on the head." The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 ...

The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are upon us ... showing western Australia as the new center of impact window (COIW), be sure to ...

The Soviet Union’s Space Research Institute, or IKI, ran a groundbreaking Venus exploration program amid the 20th century space race. Venera, as the program was called, sent a series of probes ...

The Soviet Space Research Institute, or IKI, was formed in the mid-1960s amid the 20th-century space race, which pitted the Soviet Union against its chief space-exploring competitor, the United ...

Scientists are still working to study Venus The 1972 launch came toward the end of the space race. The Soviet Union had been launching Kosmos spacecraft ten years before Kosmos 482. Kosmos 482 was ...

May 2 (UPI) --A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing ... Netherlands Delft Technical University space situational awareness lecturer Marco Langbroek discovered ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A senior researcher at Indonesia's National Innovation Research Agency's (BRIN) Space Research Center, Thomas Djamaluddin ... stems from the malfunctioning orbit of the former ...

Mikhail Gorbachev (left, signing an arms treaty with Ronald Reagan in 1987) publicly opposed space weapons, even as the Soviet Union’s prototype ... and his research clearly shows the enormous ...