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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

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 manoeuvres
Cusp 2003	5,000	no manoeuvres	04 Jun 2003
Tail 2003	200	04 July 2003	no manoeuvres
Cusp 2004	260	no manoeuvres	02 May 2004
Tail 2004	1,000	01 June 2004	no manoeuvres
Cusp 2005	1,300	no manoeuvres	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	no manoeuvres
Solar Wind 2011	5000	no manoeuvres	25 July 2011
AAR 2011	5000/20	01 Sept 2011	22 Jan 2012
GI - solar wind turbulence	5000/40	07 Mar 2012	04 May 2012
GI - magnetopause	5000/60	21 May 2012	01 June 2012
GI - tail flow braking	5000/400	10 Aug 2012	tbc
GI - large scale flank waves	40000/8000	tbc	tbc

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

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By Gill Watson

Last updated on 06-Jul-2012 by Gill Watson

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