The European spacecraft Rosetta awakens from a slumber lasting several years. Everything is going according to plan, and the probe can continue its journey toward comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe awakens from a 31-month deep sleep. Immediately afterward, the spacecraft’s star trackers, instruments needed to reconstruct the probe’s position in space and its attitude, begin to warm up for about six hours. Rosetta will send a signal to Earth to announce its awakening. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko awaits, and it will reach it on August 6, 2014. The mission is led by Andrea Accomazzo, a friend of our association Il COSMo, for which he came to give a lecture at the Marconi Foundation for the 50th anniversary of Apollo XVII.
