Cluster's Final Reentry Strengthens Data for Safer, More Sustainable Satellite Design
ROSIE will fly from Tonga with 30 instruments to record Tango’s breakup and collect spectral data after Samba’s successful reentry observation.
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Cluster's final reentry strengthens data for safer, more sustainable satellite design
The Cluster mission danced its final dance as Tango reentered the atmosphere Sept. 1 at 11:30:31 p.m. CEST. The end of the Cluster mission in 2024 marked the start of the reentry data-collection campaign. After four targeted reentries, this is now a proven method of safe end-of-life disposal. It also enabled repeated observation of the reentries by a plane full of scientists, creating a unique reentry data set that will improve our understanding…
After more than two decades in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) Cluster project is now coming to an end. On 31 August, the Samba satellite re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, and yesterday, 1 September, Tango followed suit. Tango's re-entry marked the definitive end of Cluster, the mission that transformed our understanding of the Earth's magnetic environment.
ESA’s final Cluster spacecraft Tango set for targeted reentry over the South Pacific on September 1
The European Space Agency (ESA) predicts that Tango, the fourth and final Cluster spacecraft, will reenter Earth’s atmosphere over a remote part of the South Pacific Ocean at 21:30:31 UTC on September 1, 2026, with an uncertainty of ±10 seconds. ESA said at 11:10 UTC that the ROSIE team was flying out again from Tonga to observe the breakup with an aircraft carrying 30 instruments, one day after successfully recording the reentry of Tango’s sist…
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