A remnant of the Soviet Venus program, Kosmos 482 has stayed aloft in in Earth's orbit for 53 years. But it may make a return this week.

This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th, 2012. Though the Soviet Venera program to Venus was largely successful, the post Soviet, Russian-era space program has yet to successfully field a lunar or planetary mission.