Forecasting air drag with deep learning helps predict when uncontrolled satellites and rocket stages fall to Earth

October 16, 2026 · 2:40 pm 1 sources

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• Forecasting air drag with deep learning helps predict when uncontrolled satellites and rocket stages fall to Earth
  Phys.org · October 16, 2026 14:40
  On May 10, 2025, a spacecraft built in the Soviet Union to land on Venus came home. Launched in 1972, Cosmos-482 was stranded by a failed upper stage of its rocket and circled Earth for 53 years. In its last days, several space agencies and research groups forecasted when it would fall, and…