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Nexans was among those who welcomed the European Space Agency (ESA) news that the Rosetta comet chaser satellite had been successfully “woken” in deep space after over two-and-a-half years in hibernation. Launched ten years ago, Rosetta is now 800,000,000km away and poised for the next phase of the mission – a scheduled attempt to land a probe on a comet Wake up call

surface in November. The researchers hope to gather information which will help explain the formation of the solar system. Nexans provided the electrical harnesses for the probe. The harnesses were built in Brussels and took over three years to manufacture, requiring over 12,000 electrical connections.

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