On Saturday morning, the probe flew twice over Poland, not entering the atmosphere, which the day before was a lot of concern. According to yesterday's warnings of the Polish Space Agency (Polsa) there was a real risk that the unmigrained fragments of the device would fall on Poland.
The Polish Space Agency confirmed on Saturday morning that the facility is not a threat to Poland. “The last flight of the Cosmos 482 probe over the European sensor took place at 08:04 CEST, which is adopted as the center of the deorbitation window, with uncertainty +/- 20min”.
Roskosmos' message, quoted by the TASS agency, says that the probe has fallen into the Indian Ocean. “The descending of a spacecraft was controlled by means of an automated warning system against dangerous situations in a space close to the Earth,” reads in the communiqué.
Roskosmos clarified that “according to specialists' calculations, the device flew into dense layers of the atmosphere at 9:24 Moscow time (8:24 in Poland), 560 km west of the Central Andaman Islands and fell to the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta.”
