Europe's Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Gets Big Wake-Up Call Monday
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 13:20
in Astronomy & Space
The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe is scheduled to wake up at 5:00 a.m. EST Monday after sleeping in deep space for the past 957 days. Rosetta will then start preparing to rendezvous with Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko in May.