A Soviet spacecraft will crash to Earth this month

A Soviet space probe stuck in orbit since a failed 1972 launch is expected to crash to Earth this month.

The spacecraft, dubbed Kosmos 482, is predicted to reenter Earth’s atmosphere on May 10, according to the U.S. Space Force as well as satellite analyst Marco Langbroek at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands.

The exact landing site won’t be known until shortly before impact. But it’s unlikely the probe will hurt anyone or even land in a populated area, says astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. “It is alarming, but not end-of-the-world alarming.”