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After 53 years in orbit, Soviet-era spacecraft makes plunge back to Earth
Science | May 10, 2025, 05:11 PM ISTSoviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union as part of a series of missions to Venus.
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Defunct Soviet Satellite could crash into Earth next week: Scientists warn of rare impact risk
Science | May 02, 2025, 12:07 PM ISTA Soviet-era satellite named Kosmos 482, launched in 1972, is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere between May 7 and 13, 2025. Scientists warn the car-sized spacecraft could partially survive the fall and impact somewhere between 52°N and 52°S latitude.
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Why is US acquiring 81 'obsolete' Soviet-era combat aircraft from key Russian ally Kazakhstan?
Explainers | Apr 30, 2024, 03:09 PM ISTKazakhstan auctioned 117 combat aircraft in October, including MiG-31 interceptors, MiG-27 bombers, MiG-29 fighters and Su-24 bombers. These aircraft were deemed unusable and their modernisation was deemed economically impractical, raising questions over the US purchase.
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‘Scared’ Pakistan refused Indira Gandhi’s offer to join regional strategy to counter Soviet 'occupation': CIA
India | Jan 26, 2017, 07:08 PM ISTIndira Gandhi had tried to persuade then Pak President Zia-ul-Haq in 1980 to join an Indian-sponsored regional strategy to effectively deal with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, a recently declassified CIA report says.
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Former Soviet great Olympian Sergei Belov dies at 69
Other Sports | Oct 03, 2013, 09:00 PM ISTMoscow: CSKA Moscow basketball club says former Soviet great Sergei Belov has died. He was 69.CSKA says Belov died on Thursday in the Ural Mountains city of Perm. It didn't specify the cause of death.Belov
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Watch the forgotten Soviet submarine graveyard
World | Jun 30, 2013, 06:20 AM ISTNew Delhi: High on the forbidding Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia, within the Arctic Circle, lies an incredible Soviet submarine graveyard near the Russian naval base of Olenya Bay. Sometime in the ‘70s, Nezametnaya Cove