launched fromRussia
Rumba
Success
AUG 09200011:13:00 UTCSecond of the two 2000 Soyuz-Fregat launches that completed ESA's Cluster II constellation, carrying Rumba and Tango to join Salsa and Samba from three weeks earlier. The four identical probes flew in a tetrahedral formation to measure Earth's magnetosphere in three dimensions, a rebuild of the original Cluster satellites lost on the maiden Ariane 5 in 1996.
LIFTOFF
AUG 09 200011:13:00 UTC
Success
launched fromPad 31/6Baikonur
aboardSoyuz U / FregatintoHigh Earth
Payloads · 2
- 01
Rumba
Magnetosphere research
- 02
Tango
Magnetosphere research
