{"id":1355,"date":"2025-05-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:49:34","slug":"watch-how-an-old-venus-spacecraft-tumbled-before-crashing-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/watch-how-an-old-venus-spacecraft-tumbled-before-crashing-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch how an old Venus spacecraft tumbled before crashing to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/watch-how-an-old-venus-spacecraft-tumbled-before-crashing-to_rxh7.640.jpg\">A German radar station likely got the last look.<\/p>\n<p>Before a Soviet-era spacecraft intended for <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/29748\/the-most-spectacular-images-of-venus-ever-captured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venus<\/a><\/u> crashed back to Earth over the weekend, German astronomers watched it tumble through <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a><\/u>. <\/p>\n<p>As <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/55638\/soviets-were-headed-to-venus-in-1972-the-spacecraft-is-about-to-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kosmos 482<\/a><\/u> took its last laps, a German radar station spotted the uncrewed landing capsule passing over its antenna. The <u>&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7327958537341476866&quot; \u2026<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German radar station likely got the last look. Before a Soviet-era spacecraft intended for Venus crashed back to Earth over the weekend, German astronomers watched it tumble through space. As Kosmos 482 took its last laps, a German radar station spotted the uncrewed landing capsule passing over its antenna. The &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7327958537341476866&quot; \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}