Rosetta: ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation
> <i>Operating on solar energy alone, Rosetta was placed into a deep space slumber in June 2011 as it cruised out to a distance of nearly 800 million km from the warmth of the Sun, beyond the orbit of Jupiter.</i><p>Boggles my mind what a group of engineers can do. Make you wonder if our industry's mind share being wasted on web apps and consumer gadgets because of the profit incentive associated? Just seems like an unbelievable symphony of fields all playing in concert, let alone having it all work as expected in <i>production</i>! Probably the most stunning example of this was Curiosity's Landing on Mars (the tethered landing blew me away!) [1].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/edl20120809.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/edl20120809.html</a>