This segment covers the period from 1 December 2024 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 manouvers on SC2 in January 2024 and 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.