Over 20 years into a 2-year mission, but all good things come to an end The first of the European Space Agency's Cluster satellites is set to return to Earth next month after an extraordinarily long mission. The spacecraft is destined to burn up over the South Pacific....

Salsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along The European Space Agency (ESA) has bid farewell to the Cluster II spacecraft with a final set of commands to show that engineers are indeed human....