[...] because the spacecraft's systems will take hours to power up and the signal has to travel more than 800 million kilometers (500 million miles) back to Earth, the first sign of life isn't expected before early evening. The agency is turning the tense wait into a social media event by encouraging space enthusiasts to "Wake up Rosetta" in case its internal alarm clock fails.
Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 hours ago.
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