According to CNN, Cosmos 482 is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere sometime between 10 p.m. ET on Friday and 6:30 a.m. ET on Saturday. The European Space Agency’s tracker provides a more precise estimate, predicting the descent to occur around 2:30 a.m. ET (06:37 UTC) on Saturday

The spacecraft was launched as part of the Soviet Union’s ambitious Venera program towards the fag end of the Space Race in 1972. The mission proved to be a failure as the space

A Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 on a failed mission to Venus is believed to have crashed back onto Earth early on Saturday morning.