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Cluster
Constellation Separation History
Intervals between "Finish" and "Start" are times in which
the manoeuvres are occuring and spacecraft are changing orbit
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 second number gives the separation
of Clusters 3 and 4, and the first refers to the equlilateral triangle formed
by Clusters 1,2 and 3
On plot |
Region |
Separation/km |
Start (approx) |
Finish (approx) |
1 |
Cusp 2001 |
600 |
01 Jan 2001 |
10 May
2001 |
2 |
Tail 2001 |
2,000 |
01 June
2001 |
06 Jan 2002 |
3 |
Cusp 2002 |
100 |
13
Feb 2002 |
16 Jun 2002 |
4 |
Tail 2002 |
3,700 |
10 July 2002 |
no manoeuvres |
5 |
Cusp 2003 |
5,000 |
no manoeuvres |
04 Jun 2003 |
6 |
Tail 2003 |
200 |
04 July
2003 |
no manoeuvres |
7 |
Cusp 2004 |
260 |
no
manoeuvres |
02 May 2004 |
8 |
Tail 2004 |
1,000 |
01 June
2004 |
no manoeuvres |
9 |
Cusp 2005 |
1,300 |
no
manoeuvres |
26 May 2005 |
10 |
Tail 2005 |
10,000/1,000 |
06 July 2005 |
02 Nov
2005 |
11 |
Cusp 2006 |
10,000 |
14
Nov 2005 |
no
manoeuvres |
12 |
Tail 2006 |
10,000 |
no manoeuvres |
01
Nov 2006 |
13 |
Cusp 2007 |
10,000/450 |
07
Dec 2006 |
20
Jun 2007 |
14 |
Tail 2007 |
10,000/40 |
04
Jul 2007 |
no
manoeuvres |
15 |
Cusp 2008 |
10,000/40 |
no
manoeuvres |
11
Jun 2008 |
16 |
Tail 2008 |
10,000/3,000 |
02
Aug 2008 |
10
Nov 2008 |
17 |
Solar
Wind 2009 |
10,000 |
11
Dec 2008 |
16
Apr 2009 |
18 |
AAR 2009 |
1000 |
27
May 2009 |
01
Jul 2009 |
19 |
Tail 2009 |
10,000/500 |
06
Aug 2009 |
19
Nov 2009 |
20 |
AAR 2010 |
1000 |
19
Dec 2009 |
21
Jul 2010 |
21 |
Tail 2010 |
5000 |
07
Sep 2010 |
no
manoeuvres |
22 |
GI - High latitude magnetopause electrons (Walsh) |
5000 |
29
Mar 2011 |
2 April 2011 |
23 |
Solar Wind 2011 |
5000 |
no manoeuvres |
25 July 2011 |
24 |
AAR 2011 |
5000/20 |
01 Sept 2011 |
22 Jan 2012 |
25 |
GI - solar wind turbulence (Yordanova) |
5000/40 |
07 Mar 2012 |
04 May 2012 |
26 |
GI - magnetopause (Retino) |
5000/60 |
21 May 2012 |
01 June 2012 |
27 |
GI - tail flow braking (Retino) |
5000/400 |
10 Aug 2012 |
19 Aug 2012 |
28 |
GI - large scale flank waves (Foullon) |
40000/8000 |
3 Nov 2012 |
21 Nov 2012 |
29 |
GI - 3D reconnection (Pu) |
3500/200 |
20 Jan 2013 |
13 Feb 2013 |
30 |
AAR 2013 |
3500/20 |
11 Mar 2013 |
11 Jul 2013 |
31 |
Inner Magnetosphere 2013 |
100/~10 |
Aug 2013 |
Aug 2013 |
32 |
GI - cusp currents (Pitout) |
4000/1000 |
9 Nov 2013 |
1 Feb 2014 |
33 |
Ring current with SWARM |
3000/800 |
1 Mar 2014 |
1 Nov 2014 |
34 |
Tail 2014 |
7000/300 |
1 Aug 2014 |
1 Nov 2014 |
35 |
GI - cusp currents (Pitout) |
2000/1000 |
1 Dec 2014 |
2 Jan 2015 |
36 |
Bow Shock small scales |
4000/6 |
1 Jan 2015 |
5 Feb 2015 |
37 |
GI - Turbulence (Alexandrova) |
4000/6 |
6 Feb 2015 |
25 Mar 2015 |
38 |
GI - Thrusters (Burgess) |
4000/1000 |
1 Mar 2015 |
TBD |
39 |
GI - Ring current with SWARM (Dunlop) |
4000/500 |
1 Jun 2015 |
TBD |
40 |
Tail 2015 |
4000/500 |
1 Aug 2015 |
TBD |
41 |
GI - cusp, different local time (Bogdanova) |
30000/1000 |
1 Dec 2015 |
TBD |
C3 axis tilt campaign: 25 April 2008 - 30 May 2008
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By Gill Watson
Last updated on
27-Feb-2015
by Gill Watson
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