Payload
CLUSTER II-FM6 (SALSA)
DecayedPayload
CLUSTER II-FM6 (SALSA) is a European Space Agency (ESA) (and 250 international scientific investigators) payload satellite, launched on July 16, 2000. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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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 →
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency (ESA) (and 250 international scientific investigators)
- Manufacturer
- Dornier Systems (Astrium) and 35 subcontractors
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 565.6 kg
- Dry mass
- 478 kg
- Power
- 220 W
- Design lifetime
- 4 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-041B
- NORAD catalog №
- 26411
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 1.5849 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 8, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 8, 2024
- Time in service
- 24.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed