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\nOn 20 January 2014, after 957 days of hibernation in deep space, ESA\u2019s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft is set to wake up automatically en route to the destination it has been travelling towards for nearly a decade. In preparation for the critical activation and the challenges that lie ahead for Rosetta, members of the media were invited to a briefing by ESA\u2019s science and mission control experts and partners on Tuesday, 10 December 2013, at ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.\n<\/p>\n
\nSpeakers and presentations:\n<\/p>\n
\n Jocelyne Landeau-Constantin, ESOC Head of Communication\n<\/p>\n
10:05 Comets as cosmic time capsules: Rosetta\u2019s scientific goals
\n Mark McCaughrean, Senior Scientific Advisor, Directorate of Science and Robotic Exploration
10:20 Rosetta\u2019s year of living dangerously: critical challenges in catching a comet\n<\/p>\n
Paolo Ferri, Head of Mission Operations
\n Philippe Gaudon, CNES Rosetta Project Manager
Koen Geurts, DLR Rosetta Lander Technical Manager\n<\/p>\n
10:55 ESA\u2019s Rosetta communication campaign
Markus Bauer, Science Communication Officer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nOn 20 January 2014, after 957 days of hibernation in deep space, ESA\u2019s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft is set to wake up automatically en route to the destination it has been travelling towards for nearly a decade. In preparation for the critical activation and the challenges that lie ahead for Rosetta, members of the media were invited to a briefing by ESA\u2019s science and mission control experts and partners on Tuesday, 10 December 2013, at ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.\n<\/p>\n
\nSpeakers and presentations:\n<\/p>\n
\n Jocelyne Landeau-Constantin, ESOC Head of Communication\n<\/p>\n
10:05 Comets as cosmic time capsules: Rosetta\u2019s scientific goals
\n Mark McCaughrean, Senior Scientific Advisor, Directorate of Science and Robotic Exploration
10:20 Rosetta\u2019s year of living dangerously: critical challenges in catching a comet\n<\/p>\n
Paolo Ferri, Head of Mission Operations
\n Philippe Gaudon, CNES Rosetta Project Manager
Koen Geurts, DLR Rosetta Lander Technical Manager\n<\/p>\n
10:55 ESA\u2019s Rosetta communication campaign
Markus Bauer, Science Communication Officer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}