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Apparently it crashed near Java in the Indian Ocean [0]. Any news on retrieval efforts?

[0] https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/17407



Near Java? From memory, it will definetely be garbage collected, can't say when.


Depends on whether it landed in the C.


Efforts are already underway to convert it to Rust!


Any information on ocean depth in that area? Or did it float? for a while?

From NASA article - https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id... Apparently, it broke up too 4 pieces soon after launch time and it was the lander that was circling earth for 53 years..

From https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395631/a-soviet-era-sp...

"...The Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a Telegram post that the spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere Saturday morning at 2:24 a.m. ET and landed in the Indian Ocean somewhere west of Jakarta, Indonesia. It said Kosmos 482 reentered the atmosphere about 350 miles west of Middle Andaman Island off the coast of Myanmar. ..."

NASA gave the same reentry time and landing location for the spacecraft in a post on its website...."


>Any information on ocean depth in that area?

Multiple km's deep in most of that area. That's if it missed the Sunda trench, which goes down to more than 7km in places (hint: it's a subduction zone where tectonic plates slide into Earth's interior. So ehm... deep).

Unlike eg. the Gulf of Thailand (max. 85m according to Wikipedia) or large parts of South Chinese Sea, which are very shallow in comparison.


Too expensive. It's very hard to find even an aircraft carrier at the surface, ocean is just too big. Metallic non-moving things at the bottom is easier, but it still often takes years to find a large sank ship, yet alone a small round spacecraft.

But there are many ocean hunters ready to jump on the assignment, if you secure funding.


There have been searches for years for MH370 airline in Indian ocean and it has not been found. I guess the problem there is getting a more accurate? location where it came down...


They’ve found debris though, so we know it’s fate.



Darn. Where's an inexpensive carbon fiber based submarine when you need one?



It's been down there waiting!


They're going to find MH-370 instead...


Coming down at "145 miles per hour-plus" and a "mass of just under 500 kg and 1-meter size" I would imagine there are just pieces out there now.


That's nothing compared to Venus. There it's 500C with sulfuric atmosphere.


A lot like New Delhi...


And ~1,300 psi at the surface, and a few other features.

On the upside - undeveloped property is readily available, and quite affordable.


- "On the upside - undeveloped property is readily available, and quite affordable".

It's a dry heat anyway.


It wouldn’t be HN if your joke wasn’t met with pedantry, so I’ll mention the heat and pressure at the surface means the atmosphere is a supercritical fluid of 96.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5% nitrogen.

Buyers should have all the facts


> quite affordable

The commute to there is the real problem


Apparently it was quite dense as to be able to survive the Venetian atmosphere so there has been speculation it may stay somewhat intact.


- "Venetian"

That one means "having to do with Venice". Of Venus would be "Venusian", "Venereal" (yes, really), or "Cytherean". Or, one of a dozen others—it's a Greek god-name; there's millennia of culture to drawn on.

There's an entire Wikipedia entry devoted to this adjective question,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytherean


Oh right! I did know that but typo’d it thanks.


Any thoughts about sunken vs sank?


Something that sank is now sunken.


I think Starcraft has it as Sunken Colony so..


It was suppose to come down with a parachute but fingers crossed.


That Italian atmosphere is really rough!


Smells worse than the venereal atmosphere the craft was designed for.




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