MSP 41.1

This segment covers the period from 25 May to 06 September 2019 (before the eclipse season). The magnetopause is accessible until late June, and the tail neutral sheet from early July. The primary BM1 science target is the Cluster/MMS conjunctions in the magnetosheath and at the magnetopause and Cluster skimming magnetopause, followed by the neutral sheet crossings centred on C3/C4 with C1 and C2 being in the opposite lobes.

There are manoeuvres on 16 July (C3), 5 August (C1, C2, C3) and 14 August (C1, C2, C3). This segment includes a moon eclipse on C1 at 1st July 2019, time of the eclipse 15:41-16:50, the payload off time is tbd.

This segment has 130% data volume.