Raiders of the Lost Venus Probe: a post-mortem of an interesting reentry and the confusion it left

On 10 May 2025, an unusual object, the Kosmos 482 Descent Craft , had an uncontrolled reentry (see this earlier post ). With my TU Delft colleague Dominic Dirkx, I have written a ' post mortem ' for this reentry for The Space Review of 27 May 2025, titled: " Raiders of the Lost Venus Probe: a post-mortem of an interesting reentry and the confusion it left " It can be read here . (the Tudat script…