CLUSTER: Electric Field and Wave Experiment (EFW)

May 2008:EFW CAA User's Guide available

December 2006:2001 EFW summary plots available

November 2006:2005 EFW summary plots available

May 2006: EFW summary plots online! Browse spectra or time series.

May 2006: EFW casts light on magnetic reconnection -- see ESA press release

Scientific highlights and other Cluster information can be found at at http://sci.esa.int/cluster.

EFW meetings
18-19 may 2006, Uppsala
Other EFW related workshops

The four Cluster satellites were launched in summer 2000, commisioned in autumn 2000 and have been fully operational since February 2001. The mission is now extended through 2009. The EFW instruments on all four spacecraft all work well.

Satellite names:
SC2 (Salsa) and SC3 (Samba) launched 16 July 2000,
SC1 (Rumba) and SC4 (Tango) launched 9 August 2000.

Pictures from Baikonur:
Loading the spacecraft
Flight model 8
EFW boom unit

The picture shows 4 boxes of boom units and electronic box for EFW experiment. Each boom unit contains spherical probe and 50 m of wire boom.

EFW: Electric Field and Wave Experiment on CLUSTER Spacecraft

EFW: Electric Field and Wave Experiment
on CLUSTER Spacecraft