Payload
CLUSTER II-FM7 (SAMBA)
OperationalPayloadHEONORAD 26410
CLUSTER II-FM7 (SAMBA) is a European Space Agency (ESA) (and 250 international scientific investigators) payload satellite, launched on July 16, 2000 into HEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- July 16, 2000 at 12:39 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-U-PVB →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Cluster Salsa & Samba
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 130,901 km
- Periapsis
- 466 km
- Inclination
- 149.91°
- Orbital period
- 3208.6 min
- Orbit data fetched
- September 1, 2026 at 08:33 PM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency (ESA) (and 250 international scientific investigators)
- Manufacturer
- Dornier Systems (Astrium) and 35 subcontractors
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 553.9 kg
- Dry mass
- 478 kg
- Power
- 220 W
- Design lifetime
- 4 years
- Dimensions
- Ø2.9 × 1.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-041A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26410
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 1.9953 m²
- Status
- Operational
- Decay / reentry
- August 31, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 31, 2026
- Time in service
- 26.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Operational