launched fromRussia

Rumba

Success
AUG 09200011:13:00 UTC

Second 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.

launched fromPad 31/6Baikonur

aboardSoyuz U / FregatintoHigh Earth

Payloads · 2

  • 01

    Rumba

    Magnetosphere research

  • 02

    Tango

    Magnetosphere research

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