MSP33.3

This covers October and November, and the first few days of December. The neutral sheet and plasma sheets are accessible, and the magnetopause becomes available towards the end of November. There is a moon eclipse on 12 November affecting all SC. The GI Bogdanova proposal will be executed during this MSP segment. There will be 3 BM1 sessions around perigee (2303/2304, 2307/2308, 2315/2316), as shown on the template Bryant plots, and 7 orbits will use NM1 around perigee (2304/2305, 2308/2309, 2312/2313, 2316/2317, 2319/2320, 2323/2324, 2327/2328). There are manoeuvres by C3 throughout November, and the margin for the manoeuvre on 23 November extends for 3260min after the nominal time, so the apogee BM3 has been moved earlier (to before the margin commences).

10 July: The draft MSP is now available for review. The Bryant plots are attached (and are on the web page), and the 'by orbit' list of activities, and a list of 4SC BM2 requests are also attached. In addition to the events listed above, there are some AKR and chorus activities using BM2, and a few Inner Magnetosphere with BM1.

24 July: The final MSP is now available. A few more IM BM1 periods were added, and a cusp. The D0 periods are listed in the attachments, and apogee BM3 periods have been moved to accommodate them.

14 September: ESOC has notified us the LISA Pathfinder launch is planned for late November and so the Ground Stations available for Cluster have been reduced. Several BM1/BM2 sessions in orbits 2416 - 2419 have been deleted. A new 'final' Bryant plot for November 2015 has been generated and the 'by-orbit' analysis for the draft MSP34.1 includes the changes to the end of MSP33.3.

23 October: Due to the launch delay of LISA PF, orbit 2416 has the 3-hour BM1 on the inbound Magnetopause crossing restored.