Cluster Master Science Plan
Introduction
The
Master Science Plan is an important and critical part of the
process of planning Cluster
science operations. It provides the
strategic view of the
acquisition of science data by the four Cluster
spacecraft, e.g. in terms
of scientific targets.
The
links below provide access to a variety of information on the
current and past plans
Information/Documentation
Plans for future MSP production
Overview of what the Plan provides
Previous Plans
ASCII list of Overall Plan
ASCII list of Future Plan
Notes on scheduling of BM3
High level views of the Plan
Constellation (December 2019/May 2020)
Detailed views of the Plan
These
are expanded views each showing the equivalent of
two hours of local time in
the precession of the
Cluster orbits (local times are referenced to
that at apogee). The
expanded scale allows more detail to be shown,
e.g. location of TDA8
periods (WBD downlink to Panska Ves).
These plots are now available on the
JSOC wiki.
Important: Since
2012, Cluster science requirements have
led us (occasionally) to
schedule a significant number of BM1 and BM2 periods at different times
on each spacecraft,
e.g. because of large
spacecraft separations, and because of the need for
careful targeting of BM2 on
the auroral acceleration region.
Due to the design of the
JSOC software that handles the four-spacecraft Master Science Plan,
these single spacecraft
operatons cannot be represented in the Bryant plots shown
on this web page or in the
ASCII table of the Master Science Plan.
See the
JSOC wiki for details of these single spacecraft periods, and any no-data-taking periods.
Catalogue of all Bryant Plots
Awaiting update
See the catalogue of all
operational JSOC Bryant plots
Last updated by Yulia Bogdanova (yulia.bogdanova@stfc.ac.uk),
26 January 2023
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