On Time, On Target? The Rosetta Mission

The next few hours or so will be interesting and hopefully history-making. The European Space Agency (ESA) team has come so far with the Rosetta mission. If you don’t know what Rosetta is, in short: the Europeans have sent a spacecraft, Rosetta, to successfully intercept a comet over 400,000,000 km (about 250,000,000 miles) from Earth, and […]

The ESA’s Rosetta Satellite: The Sleeper Awakes

On 20 January, 2014, a European Space Agency (ESA) comet-chasing satellite woke up for work. According to this MSN.com article, the satellite, named Rosetta, was in hibernation for 31 months. The ESA’s Rosetta satellite is waking up to meet with a certain comet in May 2014. The “OK, I’m awake” signal was relayed to the […]