Cluster Mission

Launch Status

Failure

Date & Time

4 Jun 1996, 12:34pm

Pad

Ariane Launch Area 3

Launch Service Provider

Vehicle

Mission

Cluster

Mission Type

Earth Science

Destination

High Earth Orbit

A constellation of four ESA spacecraft. These were intended to fly in a tetrahedral formation, and was inteded to conduct research into the Earth's magnetosphere.

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