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 we used for our reentry analysis can be downloaded here. Tudat itself can be downloaded here).