Cluster Rumba & Tango

Rumba and Tango, the second pair of ESA's Cluster II magnetospheric research satellites, launched from Baikonur atop a Fregat upper stage into highly elliptical polar orbits reaching about 18,000 km, completing the four-spacecraft constellation studying the solar wind's interaction with Earth's magnetic field.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

Elliptical

Elliptical orbit

Payload to orbit

2.4 T

Flight

4th

of 4 Soyuz-U/Fregat flights

Date and time

9 August 2000, 11:13 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz-U/Fregat

Builder

Progress RSC

Launch site

31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2000-045

Launches in 2000

47th of 85

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