This segment covers the period from 1 December 2023 to 5 April 2024, part of the Dayside 2024 season.

Baseline telemetry is 140%.

The period includes most of the season of ‘Short Eclipses’ in February - May 2024 when all instruments will be switched off.

The estimated dates for the payload to be off during the Short Eclipse season are:

 *   C2 03/02/2024 21:00 - 24/05/2024 10:00
 *   C1 19/02/2024 17:00 - 04/05/2024 02:00
 *   C34 26/02/2024 12:00 - 06/04/2024 22:00 

There will be re-entry manoeuvres on SC2 on 15/01/2024, 16/01/2024, 24/01/2024, 25/01/2025 and on 01/02/2024, 02/02/2024 (February's manoeuvres are back-up). The full timetable is available here ​http://jsocwiki.rl.ac.uk/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/manoeuvres_nov2023_feb2024_SC2.pdf. These manoeuvres have an increased margins and all instruments will be switched off for the whole duration of the manoeuvres.

There will be manoeuvres on SC3 in Spring 2024, the manoeuvres timetable will be available in October 2023.

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.

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. 

** Science planning around the time of the start of the Short eclipse season on SC2 was updated on 10/10/2023 to accommodate the ESOC's request to switch off payload on SC2 for the eclipse season on 01/02/2023. Updated orbits 3737 and 3738, tables with *v2* reflects the introduced changes.