Payload
CLUSTER II-FM8 (TANGO)
OperationalPayloadHEO
CLUSTER II-FM8 (TANGO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) (and 250 international scientific investigators) payload satellite, launched on August 9, 2000 into HEO.
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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
- 131,887 km
- Periapsis
- 494 km
- Inclination
- 150.15°
- Orbital period
- 3242.55 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency (ESA) (and 250 international scientific investigators)
- Manufacturer
- Dornier Systems (Astrium) and 35 subcontractors
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 567.8 kg
- Dry mass
- 478 kg
- Power
- 220 W
- Design lifetime
- 4 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-045B
- NORAD catalog №
- 26464
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 1.5887 m²
- Status
- Operational