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Rosetta is awake: the ESA spacecraft is ready to chase its comet (VIDEO)

Darmstadt, Germany - Signal received on Monday evening

Rosetta "Woke up" after 957 days of hibernation: The first communication from the spacecraft arrived at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, at 7:18 pm local time (1:18 pm EST/10:18 am PST). The signal was received by a ground station at the Goldstone, California, complex of NASA's Deep Space Network. In detail, this is the series ofr events which yesterday characterized Rosetta's...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1157744
Rome, Italy, 01/21/2014 12:04
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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