Uploaded January 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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At the same time that the spacecraft phoned home, it began to tweet, and tweeted "Hello World!" -- in the European Space Agency's numerous languages.
It was a tense half an hour for Rosetta fans all over the world as we waited for a spike in a graph to inform us that Rosetta had awoken from a 31-month slumber to phone home. But the spike -- indicating that a giant radio dish had detected the carrier signal from Rosetta's high-gain antenna -- finally came, informing us that Rosetta's alarm clock had worked, and Europe's flagship planetary mission was alive and ready to receive commands.
source: planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/01201210-rosetta-is-awake.html
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At the same time that the spacecraft phoned home, it began to tweet, and tweeted "Hello World!" -- in the European Space Agency's numerous languages.
It was a tense half an hour for Rosetta fans all over the world as we waited for a spike in a graph to inform us that Rosetta had awoken from a 31-month slumber to phone home. But the spike -- indicating that a giant radio dish had detected the carrier signal from Rosetta's high-gain antenna -- finally came, informing us that Rosetta's alarm clock had worked, and Europe's flagship planetary mission was alive and ready to receive commands.
source: planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/01201210-rosetta-is-awake.html
