Cluster reentry (Salsa) – homepage
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The reentry marks the end of the historic scientific mission, which has spent more than 24 years measuring Earth’s magnetic environment.
Of the four Cluster satellites – nicknamed Rumba (Cluster 1), Salsa (Cluster 2), Samba (Cluster 3) and Tango (Cluster 4) – Salsa will be the first to take the plunge.
In January 2024, the Cluster control team manoeuvred Salsa to target its reentry over a very sparsely populated and remote area in the South Pacific Ocean, to the west of Chile. The satellite...