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

Asia-PacificAI × Space2026-10-16

Deep learning models helped predict the reentry of Cosmos-482, a 1972 Soviet spacecraft that fell into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta after orbiting Earth for 53 years.

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