The Cluster and Phoenix Missions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-9

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2. Cluster - Science and Mission Overview

   • C. P. Escoubet, R. Schmidt, M. L. Goldstein

   Pages 11-32

3. The Cluster Mission: Esa’s Spacefleet to the Magnetosphere

   • J. Credland, G. Mecke, J. Ellwood

   Pages 33-64

4. The Cluster Magnetic Field Investigation

   • A. Balogh, M. W. Dunlop, S. W. H. Cowley, D. J. Southwood, J. G. Thomlinson, K. H. Glassmeier et al.

   Pages 65-91

5. The Wave Experiment Consortium (WEC)

   • A. Pedersen, N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin, B. De La Porte, A. Roux, A. Bouabdellah, P. M. E. Décréau et al.

   Pages 93-105

6. The Cluster Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Field Fluctuations (Staff) Experiment

   • N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin, P. Chauveau, S. Louis, A. Meyer, J. M. Nappa, S. Perraut et al.

   Pages 107-136

7. The Electric Field and Wave Experiment for the Cluster Mission

   • G. Gustafsson, R. Boström, B. Holback, G. Holmgren, A. Lundgren, K. Stasiewicz et al.

   Pages 137-156

8. WHISPER, A Resonance Sounder and Wave Analyser: Performances and Perspectives for the Cluster Mission

   • P. M. E. Décréau, P. Fergeau, V. Krannosels’Kikh, M. Lévêque, Ph. Martin, O. Randriamboarison et al.

   Pages 157-193

9. The Wide-Band Plasma Wave Investigation

   • D. A. Gurnett, R. L. Huff, D. L. Kirchner

   Pages 195-208

10. The Digital Wave-Processing Experiment on Cluster

    • L. J. C. Woolliscroft, H. St. C. Alleyne, C. M. Dunford, A. Sumner, J. A. Thompson, S. N. Walker et al.

    Pages 209-231

11. The Electron Drift Instrument for Cluster

    • G. Paschmann, F. Melzner, R. Frenzel, H. Vaith, P. Parigger, U. Pagel et al.

    Pages 233-269

12. Active Spacecraft Potential Control

    • W. Riedler, K. Torkar, F. Rüdenauer, M. Fehringer, A. Pedersen, R. Schmidt et al.

    Pages 271-302

13. The Cluster Ion Spectrometry (CIS) Experiment

    • H. Rème, J. M. Bosqued, J. A. Sauvaud, A. Cros, J. Dandouras, C. Aoustin et al.

    Pages 303-350

14. Peace: A Plasma Electron and Current Experiment

    • A. D. Johnstone, C. Alsop, S. Burge, P. J. Carter, A. J. Coates, A. J. Coker et al.

    Pages 351-398

15. RAPID

    • B. Wilken, W. I. Axford, I. Daglis, P. Daly, W. Güttler, W. H. Ip et al.

    Pages 399-473

16. Cluster Mission Operations

    • P. Ferri, M. Warhaut

    Pages 475-485

17. The Joint Science Operations Centre

    • M. A. Hapgood, T. G. Dimbylow, D. C. Sutcliffe, P. A. Chaizy, P. S. Ferron, P. M. Hill et al.

    Pages 487-525

18. The Cluster Data Processing System: A Distributed System in Support of a Challenging Scientific Mission

    • E. M. Sørensen, M. Merri, G. Di Girolamo

    Pages 527-555

19. The Cluster Science Data System (CSDS) — A New Approach to the Distribution of Scientific Data

    • R. Schmidt, C. P. Escoubet, S. J. Schwartz

    Pages 557-582

20. European Network for the Numerical Simulation of Space Plasmas

    • G. Chanteur, A. Roux

    Pages 583-598

Cluster was one of the two missions - the other being the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) - constituting the Solar Terrestrial Science Programme (STSP), the first `cornerstone' of ESA's Horizon 2000 Programme. After the catastrophic Ariane-5 accident on 4 June 1996 which destroyed the four Cluster spacecraft, the European Space Agency Science Programme Committee gave approval to refurbish the spare Cluster spacecraft and make it ready for flight. This new spacecraft, considered to be the first of a new fleet, is called Phoenix. In the meantime various options to repeat the Cluster four-point measurements are being studied.
Since Phoenix, as the fifth Cluster spacecraft, will be equipped with the spare Cluster experiments, the instrumentation articles in this book are still appropriate to the new mission. Furthermore, the objectives of the recovery mission, the ground systems, the ground observation program and the theory and modelling efforts all remain unchanged. Thus this series of articles will continue to be essential to the Cluster community and to the general scientific community as the recovery mission is implemented.

• magnetosphere
• observatory
• solar
• spectrometry

• Solar System Division, Space Science Department, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands

  C. P. Escoubet, R. Schmidt

• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of Los Angeles, USA

  C. T. Russell

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