A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm.

The uncontrolled re-entry of a spacecraft launched over half a century ago is expected to take place tomorrow and the UK falls within its potential crash area. 53 years ago, a Soviet Venera landing capsule named Kosmos 482 was launched - it was meant to land on the planet Venus, but failed to escape low Earth orbit.