A SOVIET-era spacecraft plunged down to Earth more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus.
The space vessel hurtled back down in an “uncontrolled reentry”, the European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed.
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The European Space Agency space debris office agreed that the spacecraft had reentered – after it failed to appear over a German radar station.
It’s not yet clear where the speeding spaceship crash landed – or how much of it survived the fiery descent.
Experts said ahead of time that the wreckage could arrive whole, given it was built to withstand a landing on Venus – the solar system’s hottest planet.
The hunk of space junk was first launched in 1972.
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