PARIS, FRANCE (BNO NEWS) -- Distant 'Rosetta' spacecraft wakes up from hibernation after nearly 3 years, sends signal back to Earth, European Space Agency says.

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Watch live: comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft wakes up from deep-space hibernation

Watch live coverage from 9.15am from the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, as the comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft wakes up from its deep-space hibernation to begin its scientific mission

After a 10-year journey, Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is due to end its hibernation on Monday and prepare for an unprecedented mission to orbit a comet and dispatch a lander to the surface.

Rosetta's on-board alarm clock is due to go off at 1000 GMT, but it will take the spacecraft about seven hours to warm up its star tracking navigation gear, fire up rocket thrusters to slow its spin, turn on its transmitter and beam a message back to Earth, the European Space Agency said in a status report posted on its website.

Watch here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbTgmiSBexs

It will certainly be an amazing feat if the lander can successfully set down on the comet. I look forward to August.

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