Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-999-1499-x
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-999-1499-x
31 Dec 1999
31 Dec 1999

Introduction: The Equator-S mission

G. Haerendel, R. B. Torbert, and H. Höfner

Abstract. In spite of its short operational life of only five months, the major goals of the Equator-S mission were fulfilled, except that its contribution to the ISTP science is restricted to the morning sector of the outer magnetosphere. A set of twelve papers following this introduction is a first documentation of the achievements. They span from the successful testing and operation of the most advanced and complex way of measuring electric fields in a hot plasma environment by means of electron beams, to various investigations at or near the equatorial magnetopause and in the plasma sheet.

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