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| 2 | This segment covers the period from 1 December 2024 to 5 April 2024, part of the Dayside 2024 season, the Bryant plot is available at: http://jsocwiki.rl.ac.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/bryant_msp_v5000_Dayside_2024.pdf |
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| 4 | Baseline telemetry is 140%. |
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| 6 | The period includes most of the season of ‘Short Eclipses’ in February - May 2024 when all instruments will be switched off. |
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| 8 | The estimated dates for the payload to be off during the Short Eclipse season are: |
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| 10 | * C2 03/02/2024 21:00 - 24/05/2024 10:00 |
| 11 | * C1 19/02/2024 17:00 - 04/05/2024 02:00 |
| 12 | * C34 26/02/2024 12:00 - 06/04/2024 22:00 |
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| 14 | here will be re-entry manouvers on SC2 in January 2024 and manoeuvres on SC3 in Spring 2024, the manoeuvres timetable will be available in October 2023. |
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| 16 | Cluster crosses the predicted magnetopause from: SC1 - 07/11/2023, SC2 - 10/11/2023, C34 - 14/11/2023. Cluster crosses the predicted bow shock from: SC1 - 16/12/2023, SC2 - 18/12/2023, SC34 - 25/12/2024. |
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| 18 | The main science targets are conjunctions between Cluster and MMS and/or THEMIS at the magnetopause, bow shock and inside the magnetosheath, and auroral acceleration region in the southern hemisphere. |