EVENT SCHEDULE

Cluster's Last Dance

Cluster SWT # 61, film panel and screening and re-entry event agenda

ESOC 31 August - 1 September 2026 

ALL TIMES IN CEST

The event will be filmed. Consent forms will be issued before and during the event.

Microsoft Teams meeting link- 

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/31249814807858?p=rWToi0x2o5AYy4qdl8

Meeting ID: 312 498 148 078 58

Passcode: pC62V7LQ

Location - H rooms

Monday 31 August 2026 - SWT 61 day 1 

Lunch served outside H room in Foyer for all SWT partipants, starting at 12:00 CEST

13:30 Welcome and Agenda Approval - Philippe

13:40 Action Items and approval of minutes - Philippe

13:50 Cluster operations and re-entry status - Beatriz/Bruno/Stijn

14:10 CAA/CSA status - Philippe/Anastasia

14:30 CIS archiving status - Iannis

14:50 EDI archiving status - Mikhail

15:10 FGM archiving status and last orbit data - Leah/Chris

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 PEACE archiving status - Natasha/Andrew

16:20 RAPID archiving status - Patrick

16:40 DWP archiving status - Simon/Keith

17:00 EFW archiving status - Yuri

17:20 STAFF archiving status - Patrick

17:40 WBD archiving status - Jolene

18:00 Adjourn

Cluster film panel and film screening

All ESOC colleagues are welcome

Location - H rooms

18:30 Cluster film panel + film screening 

Panel discussion with composer, director, producer, scientists and muscians behind the film for around 30 minutes, followed by a musical performance and then a screening of the film

20:30 End

Participants to get dinner in Darmstadt (self paid) 

C3 re-entry 'watch' party

All ESOC colleagues are welcome

Location - Press Centre

23:00 C3 re-entry event

"And now there are two..." - a presentation by our one and only Pat Daly!

C3 estimate (as of 24 August)  SC will pass 71 km altitude around 2026/08/31 23:39:38 CEST +/- 10 seconds 

Loss of signal will be around 20 minutes prior to this.

00:30 end of re-entry event 

Tuesday 1 September 2026 SWT 61 day 2 

Location - H rooms

10:40 WHISPER archiving status - Xavier

11:00 ESOC archiving status - Beatriz

11:20 JSOC archiving status - Anne

11:40 Double Star PEACE archiving status - Branislav

12:00 Archive user guides - Helen/Chris

12:20 Geospace Region and Magnetospheric Boundary - Benjamin

12:40 AOB and final remarks of SWT

13:00 Lunch break

Final Cluster re-entry event

All ESOC colleagues are welcome

Location - H rooms

14:00 Welcome address by D/OPS Rolf Densing and D/SCI Carole Mundell

14:20 Cluster science highlights - Arnaud Masson

14:40 Misha Balikhin and Cluster - Andrew Dimmock

15:00 "Inventive Eclipse Operations and exciting Recoveries“ - Juergen Volpp

15:20 Cluster wide band instrument challenges and NASA collaboration - Jolene Pickett

15:40 Coffee break

16:00 How to keep eight instruments alive for 24 years - Andrew Fazakerley 

16:20 Cluster 3 and 4 end of operations - Beatriz Abascal Palacios/ Bruno Sousa

16:40 Cluster 3 and 4 re-entry status - Beatriz Jilete

17:00 Cluster song - Lucile Turc 

17:10 Closing remarks - Philippe Escoubet

17:30 Collect Final PI commands for C4.

Adjourn 17:40

Participants to get dinner in Darmstadt (self paid) 

C4 re-entry 'watch' party

All ESOC colleagues are welcome

Location - Press Centre

22:30 Cluster 4 re-entry event

                  - Possible last commands to be sent to Cluster 4

                  - Loss of signal from spacecraft

                  - Plane short message about catching re-entry of Cluster 4 (TBC)

C4 estimate (as of 24 August) SC will pass ~68 km altitude around 2026/09/01 23:30:31 CEST +/- 1 minute 

Loss of signal will be around 20 minutes prior to this.

00:30 end of re-entry event