Background briefing – Rosetta wake up and year ahead

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Next year, on 20 January, after 957 days of hibernation in deep space, ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft is set to wake up automatically en route to the destination it has been travelling towards for nearly a decade.

via ESA Space Science

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Background_briefing_Rosetta_wake_up_and_year_ahead