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Main Rosetta milestones
20 January 2014
Rosetta wakes up from deep-space hibernation
May-August 2014
Comet rendezvous manoeuvres
6 August 2014
Rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
12 November 2014
First ever attempt to land on a comet
End 2014
Monitoring of comet’s activity and evolution continues
13 August 2015
Closest approach to the Sun