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\t\t\t\t\t If you\u2019ve been spending much of the last 24 hours inside a secure building fearing that a spent Soviet spacecraft part might land on your head, then the good news is that it\u2019s safe to come out now.<\/p>\n The object \u2014 part of the Kosmos-482 spacecraft that launched 53 years ago \u2014 crashed to Earth at around 9:24 a.m. Moscow time (2:24 a.m. ET) on Saturday, according to the Russian space agency Roscosmos.<\/p>\n While there have been no eyewitness reports of the 1,000-pound part coming down, Roscosmos has said it believes the object landed in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia.<\/p>\n Debris from spent rockets or satellites enters Earth\u2019s atmosphere all the time, but most of it burns up before reaching our planet\u2019s surface. Kosmos-482, however, was made of sterner stuff, as it had been designed to withstand the extreme pressure and heat of Venus, the planet where it was supposed to have landed just over 100 days after its launch back in 1972.<\/p>\n The Kosmos-482 mission was over shortly after it began, when a rocket malfunction during launch meant that it would never be able to reach its destination. After the vehicle\u2019s upper stage failed to properly ignite, it remained trapped in a highly elliptical Earth orbit where it stayed for more than half a century before eventually reentering Earth\u2019s atmosphere on Saturday.<\/p>\n While some folks may have had concerns about the great lump of metal landing on their head, the European Space Agency had tried to put things into perspective prior to its return, saying: \u201cThe risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote. The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a person is about 65,000 times more likely to be struck by lightning.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\tNot so many moons ago, Trevor moved from one tea-loving island nation that drives on the left (Britain) to another (Japan)\u2026\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/section>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tElon Musk reveals ambitious SpaceX plan for landing Super Heavy booster\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n After years of hard work, SpaceX has managed to nail its extraordinary launch-and-landing procedure that allows the reuse of its first-stage Falcon 9 booster.<\/p>\n SpaceX boss Elon Musk has now revealed that his team is planning something far bolder for its much larger next-generation Super Heavy rocket that will one day carry the Starship spacecraft into space.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\t\t\t\tRead more\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tSpaceX\u2019s latest Starship static fire test didn\u2019t go as planned\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n SpaceX performed a static fire test of its latest Starship prototype this week, but not all went as planned.<\/p>\n This was the third static fire test of the SN8 prototype, in which the rocket is fueled as if it were to be launched, then fires its engines for a few seconds which remains attached to the ground. But this time the test experienced some issues. As the vehicle fired its engines, some kind of material could be seen dripping from the base of the prototype, as reported by space.com. This is not a normal part of the test and indicates that something was going wrong.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\t\t\t\tRead more\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t\t\t\tJames Webb turns its sights on the coldest exoplanet ever discovered\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six times the mass of Jupiter, is the coldest exoplanet ever detected, with an average temperature of minus 87 degrees Celsius or minus 125 degrees Fahrenheit. <\/p>\n That makes the planet’s average temperatures around the same as the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth, in Antarctica near the south pole during the dead of winter. So if you’re looking for a cozy place to visit for your holidays, even though Planet WD 1856+534 b is located just 81 light-years away, we wouldn’t recommend it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\t\t\t\tRead more\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Digital News A mockup of the Venera 7 lander, similar to the object that fell to Earth. 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