Magnetotail Science With Double Star and Cluster

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Dec 2005

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #SM24A-02

Physics

2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2788 Magnetic Storms And Substorms (7954)

Scientific paper

Double Star is an international collaboration between the China National Space Agency (CNSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), which has produced and launched two magnetospheric research spacecraft, TC-1 and TC-2. TC-1, was launched in late December 2003, and is in a near-equatorial highly elliptical orbit, with apogee at 13.4 Earth radii. TC-2 was launched in late July 2004 into a polar orbit with apogee at 7.1 Earth radii, initially at a high magnetic latitude. These orbits were designed so that the magnetic local time of their apogees coincide closely with that of ESA's Cluster flotilla. Cluster, launched in 2000, is also in a polar orbit, but with apogee at about 19.6 Earth radii. These six spacecraft provide excellent opportunities for magnetotail science by enabling simultaneous co-ordinated observations at different distances along the magnetotail. We will illustrate this by presenting a study of a magnetotail disturbance during such a conjunction.

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