Kosmos 482 crashes back to Earth, disappearing into Indian Ocean after 53 years

Such a shame. It should have landed on a desert and take some pictures.

I am unsure what I expected to "see" as I tried to "follow this event live" on YouTube. There were a few channels which featured telemetry, a map, and orbit diagrams. However, even the Roscosmos message implies that the impact location was approximated by calculations, and there was no observation, no imagery, and no witnesses of the alleged re-entry itself.

I suppose that many remote corners of the world are not subject to the sort of surveillance we'd expect in CONUS, but apparently even if there were a fireball and/or a splash, no human being recorded it even with remote instruments in this case.

I suppose that's fine if it plopped into the ocean. There won't exactly be a SAR team out to recover the craft for posterity's sake. But with all the news reports coming in, and my burgeoning new interest in astronomy, a false hope of spectacle had been engendered in my mind. Ah well.