Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Explorers Club 50, 2024 | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-sp…
- Before the first US and USSR flyby missions in the 1960s, it was thought that Venus's thick clouds might hide an ocean world. There is a beautiful symmetry to Kosmos 482's plummet into the ocean - falling to a Venus that might have been. 🧪 #PlanetSci
- Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 plunges to Earth after 53 years in orbit: abc.net.au/news/2025-05-11/sov…
- Today we may see the atmospheric re-entry of a historic spacecraft that was meant to land on Venus and got stuck in Earth orbit, 53 years ago. Predicted re-entry time 10 May 2025, 6:35 UTC ± 3.7 hr (via @marcolangbroek.bsky.social) 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci
- Reposted by Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)History Crashes to Earth: The Long Journey of #Venus Probe Kosmos 482 www.sciencealert.com/history-cras...
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- What happened to all the Soviet missions to Venus in the Cold War? And will the failed Venus lander Kosmos 482 hit Earth instead? 🧪 #PlanetSci theconversation.com/more-than-50...
- Reposted by Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)Follow @drspacejunk.bsky.social's lead and check our journal, Advances in Space Research, to be inspired by the latest results and ideas in space science! Not a subscriber? Dozens of award-winning articles are currently available to read for free: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/adva... 🔭
- Cool terms and/or writing prompts from the latest issue of Advances in Space Research: - Impact of tone errors - semantic segmentation - unscented transformation - cloud template matching - attitude consensus - Poynting-Robertson drag 🧪 @cospar.bsky.social
- What happened to all the Soviet missions to Venus in the Cold War? And will the failed Venus lander Kosmos 482 hit Earth instead? 🧪 #PlanetSci theconversation.com/more-than-50...
