ESA's Cluster 2 mission, launched in 2000, will exploit a once in an 11-year opportunity of peak solar activity to study the sun's impact on the earth. The effects of this peak range from the appearance of auroras in the polar night sky, to the malfunction of satellites and disruption of power networks.The spacecraft, flying in formation between 19000 and 119000km above the Earth, will study the interaction between solar wind and the Earth's atmosphere in deep detail, to obtain three-dimensional measurements of phenomena which occur in the immediate surroundings of our planet.
Cluster 2 is a replacement for the original Cluster mission, which was lost during the first test flight of Ariane 5 in June 1996. The four spacecraft will be launched in pairs by two Soyuz launch vehicles. Mission control will be performed by ESA/ESOC European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
This VNR contains A-roll with commentary and B-roll arranged as follows:
graphics of Cluster satellites in orbit; gvs' of Cluster

Gen2 prodnr 1702 was exactly the same program as this production nr 1413. As production nr 1413, nor nr 1702 was available in Gen1, I recuperated the tape with prodnr 1702/tape number 1010886 'Cluster II - Background Footage (17/04/00)' as a Gen1 production of prodnr 1413. The Gen2 database entry for production nr 1702 was deleted.
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10:00:00 opening titles
10:00:38 title: Cluster 2 TV Footage, 6/4/00
10:00:43 menu
10:00:48 title: A-roll
10:00:53 start of A-roll
10:03:15 title: B-roll
10:03:20 title: Cluster 2 graphics
10:03:25 var graphics Cluster satellites in orbit
10:04:03 title: gvs Cluster 2 development and testing, IABG, nr.
Munich, Germany
10:04:08 gvs' testing and development of Cluster satellites, IABG
10:09:08 title: graphics: the solar wind and magnetosphere
10:09:13 graphic: the Sun emits stream of solar particles
[coronal mass ejection]
10:09:51 graphic: the magnetosphere and solar wind
10:10:35 graphic: the solar wind passes through the
magnetosphere to form the Northern Lights
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