A Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched in 1972, made an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere after a failed Venus mission. While Russian authorities indicated it fell into the ...

Meanwhile, the rocket's upper stage continued carrying the 28 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit, where they're scheduled to be deployed 65 minutes after liftoff. — SpaceX: Facts about ...

But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction. Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer ...

It was not immediately known how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit. Experts said ahead of time that some if not all of it might come crashing down ...

"But due to a malfunction of the booster block, it remained in a high elliptical orbit of the Earth, gradually approaching the planet," Roscosmos said in the post. The spacecraft was one of ...