{"id":594540,"date":"2019-03-20T08:12:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5655d3db1e82f7bfa697965314e37656"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:12:44","slug":"spot-failed-soviet-venus-probe-kosmos-482-in-earth-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=594540","title":{"rendered":"Spot failed Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 in Earth orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ghost from the old Soviet space program may return to Earth in the coming years. Mimicking a campy episode of the &#8217;70s series The Six Million Dollar Man, a Soviet Venus lander stranded in Earth orbit will eventually reenter the atmosphere, perhaps as early as late 2019. Fortunately, this isn&#8217;t the &#8220;Venus death probe&#8221; that the bionic man Steve Austin had to defeat, but Kosmos 482 is part of a fascinating forgotten era of the Space Age, and one you can track down in the night sky, with a little skill and patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ghost from the old Soviet space program may return to Earth in the coming years. Mimicking a campy episode of the &#8217;70s series The Six Million Dollar Man, a Soviet Venus lander stranded in Earth orbit will eventually reenter the atmosphere, perhaps as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594541,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594540\/revisions\/594541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}