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Rosetta arrives at the comet

ESA Celebrates First Anniversary of Rosetta’s Awakening; More to Come in 2015

[youtube]http://youtu.be/UqcDtRmJbKY[/youtube]   At 10am GMT on the 20 January 2014, an ‘alarm clock’ went off on board a tiny spaceship, more than 800 million kilometres from Earth. The European Space Agency’s craft Rosetta began restarting its systems after a 31-month ‘deep-space hibernation’, which had brought it out past the orbit of Jupiter and into pole position for its rendezvous […]

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