A SOVIET-era spacecraft plunged down to Earth on Saturday more than a half-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.
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