ESA Cluster Mission will End With Reentry Over South Pacific

Has Spent 24 Years Studying Earth’s Magnetosphere

Over 24 years after it was sent into space to measure Earth’s magnetic environment, the first of four satellites that make up ESA’s Cluster mission will reenter Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area on September 8, marking the end of an historic mission. Though the remaining three satellites will also stop making scientific ob…