This segment covers the period from 5 July 2024 to 30 September 2024 (end of the science operations) and covers part of the Nightside 2024 season, the Bryant plot is available at: ​​​http://jsocwiki.rl.ac.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/bryant_msp_v5000_Tail_2024.pdf.

This segment includes SC2 re-entering date (8 September 2024 20:00 UT) and science planning after 8th of September 2024 will be only for SC134.

It is agreed that on SC2 planning will be based on the assumption that some payload on SC2 will be ON (FGM, PEACE, WEC) but this might not be the case.

Baseline telemetry is 140% over the whole segment and it is variable between PPs with a range 113%-150%.

The segment includes a season of ‘Long Eclipses’ in September - November 2024 when all instruments will be switched off. The estimated preliminary dates for the payload to be off during the Long Eclipse season are:

• SC34 16/09/2024 09:00 - 30/09/2024 16:00

• SC1 29/09/2024 16:00 - 07/11/2024 20:00

There will be moon eclipses on SC34 in September 2024, the eclipse time is 02/09/2024 17:12 - 02/09/2024 18:46. The payload constrains time is TBD.

There will be manoeuvres on SC1 in August 2024, the timetable is TBD.

Cluster crosses the predicted magnetopause until: SC34 - 01/07/2024, SC1 - 03/07/2024, SC2 - 08/07/2024.

Cluster crosses the predicted neutral sheet from: SC34 - 01/08/2024, and there are no predicted NS crossings on SC12.

The main science targets are conjunctions between Cluster and MMS and/or THEMIS in the plasma sheet, and auroral acceleration region in the northern hemisphere.