Payload
CLUSTER II-FM5 (RUMBA)
DecayedPayloadHEO
CLUSTER II-FM5 (RUMBA) is a European Space Agency (ESA) (and 250 international scientific investigators) payload satellite, launched on August 9, 2000 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 9, 2000 at 11:13 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Cluster Rumba & Tango
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 130,779 km
- Periapsis
- 209 km
- Inclination
- 146°
- Orbital period
- 3195.94 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency (ESA) (and 250 international scientific investigators)
- Manufacturer
- Dornier Systems (Astrium) and 35 subcontractors
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 551 kg
- Dry mass
- 478 kg
- Power
- 224 W
- Design lifetime
- 4 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-045A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26463
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 1.9953 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 22, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 22, 2025
- Time in service
- 25.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed