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Cluster Constellation Separation History

Prepared by ANF, based on ESOC documents

Intervals between "Finish" and "Start" are times in which the manoeuvres are occuring

The separation distances refer to the situations (twice per orbit) when the spacecraft are arranged at the vertices of an equlilateral tetrahedron. If two numbers are given (e.g. 10,000/1,000) the later number gives the separation of Clusters 3 and 4, and the former refers to the equlilateral triangle formed by Clusters 1,2 and (tbc) 3

Region	Separation/km	Start (approx)	Finish (approx)

Cusp 2001	600	"01 Jan 2001"	10 May 2001
Tail 2001	2,000	01 June 2001	06 Jan 2002
Cusp 2002	100	13 Feb 2002	16 Jun 2002
Tail 2002	3,700	10 July 2002	(no maneouvres)
Cusp 2003	5,000	(no maneouvres)	04 Jun 2003
Tail 2003	200	04 July 2003	(no maneouvres)
Cusp 2004	260	(no maneouvres)	02 May 2004
Tail 2004	1,000	01 June 2004	(no maneouvres)
Cusp 2005	1,300	(no maneouvres)	26 May 2005
Tail 2005	10,000/1,000	06 July 2005	02 Nov 2005
Cusp 2006	10,000	14 Nov 2005	no manoeuvres
Tail 2006	10,000	no manoeuvres	01 Nov 2006
Cusp 2007	10,000/450	07 Dec 2006	20 Jun 2007
Tail 2007	10,000/40	04 Jul 2007	no manoeuvres
Cusp 2008	10,000/40	no manoeuvres	11 Jun 2008
Tail 2008	10,000/3,000	02 Aug 2008	10 Nov 2008
Solar Wind 2009	10,000	11 Dec 2008	16 Apr 2009
AAR 2009	1000	27 May 2009	01 Jul 2009
Tail 2009	10,000/500	06 Aug 2009	19 Nov 2009
AAR 2010	1000	19 Dec 2009	21 Jul 2010
Tail 2010	5000	07 Sep 2010	tbc
2010-2015	tbc	tbc	tbc

C3 axis tilt campaign: 25 April 2008 - 30 May 2008

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By Andrew Fazakerley

Last updated on 09-Sep-2010 by Andrew Fazakerley

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