Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid encounter
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 03:28
in Astronomy & Space
Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA’s comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.