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New satellites blast off from Kazakhstan

This content was published on Aug 9, 2000 The satellites, called Rumba and Tango, were launched by a Soyuz rocket and have joined two others, already in orbit, as the second part of the “Cluster mission”. If all goes according to plan, the four satellites will circle our planet in an elliptical, polar orbit, at distances of between 25,000 and 125,000 kilometres. The…