Early morning call for Rosetta ...

[Steve Ward]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25782249

[Moonshane]

cool! bet they are glad they didn't select ISON!

[Stargazer_00]

20 minutes till wake up time   fingers crossed it all comes back online smoothly!

[Steve Ward]

Livefeed and interesting videos here ... http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/esalive

[Mav359]

So 17:45 they should know according that presenter......

They woke it 10:15 and it won't get up till early evening........ Sounds like my little brother!

[Monty]

I hope this evening we have some good news.

[nickd]

Guardian also covering with an intersting blog http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2014/jan/20/rosetta-comet-chasing-spacecraft-wakes-up-esa-live-blog

If you are on Twitter you can follow @esaoperations

Fingers crossed for a truly ambitious mission.

Nick

[Laurie61]

Nothing yet  

[nickd]

Mad to think of it waking up all the way out there in deep space!  Should be any time now?  Hope they have more luck with Rosetta than I am with live feed.  

[Laurie61]

Mad to think of it waking up all the way out there in deep space!  Should be any time now?  Hope they have more luck with Rosetta than I am with live feed.  

The link you posted has been fine for me  Try this one http://www.livestream.com/eurospaceagency?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks

[nickd]

Haha!  Good.  Working for me too now.  No audio though.  You?

[Laurie61]

No, I have no audio either. 

[Tinker1947]

11969 viewers...

I surpose if they jump about like a load of loonies its responded..

[nickd]

Excellent. Have they tried turning it off and on again?

[Laurie61]

Is that something or not 

[Tinker1947]

there jumping about...

[Laurie61]

looks like it was

[Laurie61]

Nice job ESA 

[Steve Ward]

Rosetta's awake ... congratulations to everyone involved ... 

[nickd]

Awesome.  Good job.  

[Laurie61]

Looking forward to the landing attempt, hope we get a live feed for that.  

[nickd]

In 3D

[gkec]

Rosetta's awake ... congratulations to everyone involved ... 

Thanks

[lukebl]

Something puzzles me. The comet will have a negligible gravity. How will the probe land on it and, more importantly, how will it stay there? Does it have some sort of grab so that it can hang on?

[gkec]

Something puzzles me. The comet will have a negligible gravity. How will the probe land on it and, more importantly, how will it stay there? Does it have some sort of grab so that it can hang on?

It uses a harpoon!

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