Comet-probing robot to wake from hibernation
Paris (AFP) March 26, 2014 - A fridge-sized robot lab hurtling through the Solar System aboard a European probe is about to wake from hibernation and prepare for the first-ever landing by a spacecraft on a comet. The delicate operation, starting Friday, marks the next phase in the European Space Agency's billion-dollar mission to explore one of these ancient wanderers of our star system. Sent to sleep in 2011 to sav ... more
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