Mission
After 24 years in orbit, the Cluster mission had came to an end in September 2024 (IASB-BIRA News), with the reentry of C2-Salsa, 1 of the 4 satellites of the Cluster quartet (ESA News).The 3 others will also reenter soon the Earth's atmosphere : C1-Rumba in November 2025, C3-Samba and C4-Tango in August 2026.
General Information
- ESA Cluster home page
- JSOC (Cluster Joint Science Operations Centre)
- Scientific Objectives
- Key Plasma Regions
- List of publications of the Cluster mission
- Directory of Cluster Community Members
Instrument Description
- ASPOC : Active Spacecraft Potential Control experiment
Klaus Torkar, Austria - CIS : Cluster Ion Spectrometry experiment
Iannis Dandouras, France (1st PI: Henri Rème) - DWP : Digital Wave Processing experiment
Misha Balikhin, UK (1st PI: Hugo Alleyne) - EDI : Electron Drift Instrument
Mikhail Rashev, Germany (1st PI: Götz Paschmann) - EFW : Electric Field and Wave experiment
Mats André, Sweden - FGM : Fluxgate Magnetometer
Chris Carr, UK (1st PI: André Balogh) - PEACE : Plasma Electron And Current Experiment
Andrew Fazakerley, UK - RAPID : Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors
Patrick Daly, Germany (1st PI: Berend Wilken) - STAFF : Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Field Fluctuation experiment
Patric Canu, France (1st PI: Nicole Cornilleau-Wehrlin) - WBD : Wide Band Data instrument
Jolene Pickett, USA (1st PI: Donald Gurnett) - WHISPER : Waves of High frequency and Sounder for Probing of Electron density by Relaxation experiment
Pierre Henri, France (1st PI: Pierrette Décréau) - WEC : Wave Experiment Consortium
Current Chairman: Per-Arne Lindqvist, Sweden
