CEDAR email: Please support a final extension of the Cluster mission!

[Andrew Fazakerley]

Dear CEDAR Community

We are writing as the Principal Investigators of the Cluster 
solar-terrestrial physics mission to inform you that a positive decision 
by ESA to support a final extension of the Cluster mission during 
2023-2025 is in doubt. We would like to ask for your help in our efforts 
to persuade ESA to support a final extension, the goals of which include 
topics that may be of interest to the CEDAR community such as auroral 
acceleration region processes, and studies of magnetosphere-ionosphere 
coupling during geomagnetic storms as solar maximum approaches.

Apologies, if you have seen this message more than once. Thank you, if 
you have already indicated your support as proposed below.

If you would like to show your support, please simply visit the 
following link, and add your name/institute/nation at the end of the 
google document that you find there, at your earliest convenience.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13sEBJh4A_TkiRO6i_LUJ6F_nfJkKnFqFFAU5smoM99g/edit 
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The document that you will find there consists of a letter that the 
Cluster PIs have drafted to send to ESA's Director of Science and the 
members of its Science Programme Committee (SPC). We aim to send the 
completed letter in mid-January, ahead of a key SPC Workshop in early 
February (which itself precedes the SPC meeting in March at which the 
extension decision is expected to be formalised).

Please feel free to share this email with colleagues that may be 
interested; our mailing list is not comprehensive!

Thank you in advance, if you choose to indicate your support.

best wishes

The Cluster Principal Investigators

Mats Andre, Michael Balikhin, Patrick Canu, Chris Carr, Patrick Daly,
Iannis Dandouras, Andrew Fazakerley, Jolene Pickett, Jean-Louis Rauch,
Roy Torbert, Klaus Torkar, Rob Fear

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Andrew Fazakerley
Professor of Space Plasma Physics
Head of Department, Department of Space and Climate Physics
Director, Mullard Space Science Laboratory

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Department of Space and Climate Physics
University College London,
Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking,
Surrey, RH5 6NT, UK.

Tel: +44 (0)1483 204175
Fax: +44 (0)1483 278312
e-mail: a.fazakerley at ucl.ac.uk

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/
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