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Cosmos 482 Descent Craft tracker

by Kaibeezy on 5/10/25, 8:45 AM with 7 comments

• by WalterGR on 5/10/25, 9:04 AM

  This almost certainly just shows its usual orbit. I've had no luck finding a source of real-time info.

  The European Space Agency (ESA) publishes occasional updates here: https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2025/05/07/reentry-predi... . The most recent one is from about 1h20m ago:

  "10 May 09:56 CEST. As the descent craft was not spotted by radar over Germany at the expected 07:32 UTC / 09:32 CEST pass, it is most likely that the reentry has already occurred."

  This was published about 20 minutes ago, but basically just quotes ESA:

  "Kosmos-482: Out-of-control Russian spacecraft probably just fell to Earth, experts say" https://www.independent.co.uk/space/kosmos-482-russian-space...

• by dchest on 5/10/25, 10:11 AM

  "According to calculations by specialists from TsNIIMash (part of Roscosmos), the spacecraft entered the dense layers of the atmosphere at 9:24 Moscow time, 560 km west of Middle Andaman Island, and fell in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta."

  https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/17407

• by emmelaich on 5/10/25, 1:35 PM

  https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=6073 was tracking it but then got overloaded (mysql connection errors). But now shows it no longer in orbit.

• by _kb on 5/10/25, 9:26 AM

  More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942194

• by teamonkey on 5/10/25, 11:47 AM

  This site was tracking the satellite’s path based on reported visual observations.

  https://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=6073#TOP