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ESA's Rosetta spacecraft ready to "Wake up" (VIDEO)

Rome, Italy - It will monitor comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

Rosetta, the unmanned spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) will "Wake up" as scheduled today, Monday 20 January 2014, at 10:00 am GMT/UTC. The vehicle, filled with 25 instruments between its lander and orbiter (including three from American space agency NASA), after a check-out period will monitor comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it makes its nosedive into, and then climb out of, the...

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Rome, Italy, 01/20/2014 11:22
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