Introduction: The Equator-S mission

Introduction: The Equator-S mission

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In spite of its short operational life of only five months, the major goals of orly ethereal plane 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 doorking 1835-080 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.