Waking up a spacecraft is no simple task. For recent the awakening of comet-chaser Rosetta, the European Space Agency recruited an entire contest of wake-up videos.
The entries ranged from an anime robotica dance video by Canadian Gerald Darroles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSHo-IOnWnQ
to a black-and-white hand-sketched stop-action animation by Bruno Correia Da Costa of Portugal:
and a lot of anthropomorphic spacecraft, custom songs, collective shouts, multi-lingual good mornings, and countless science teachers rudely awakening their sleeping students:
Each of the Top Ten videos were transmitted via the European Space Agency’s 35-meter-diameter deep-space tracking dishes in the past few weeks, making sure that Rosetta and little lander Philae didn’t oversleep.
https://gizmodo.com/rosetta-a-comet-hunting-spacecraft-just-woke-up-1505225689
https://gizmodo.com/goodmorning-philae-rosettas-lander-wakes-up-1553755076
Image credit: ESA. Want the same idea but slightly different? Download the full wallpaper collection here. After bracing for an eternal sleep, the Chinese lunar rover Jade Rabbit also recently awoke from hibernation.
https://gizmodo.com/chinas-jade-rabbit-moon-rover-has-been-lost-1521264033
https://gizmodo.com/the-jade-rabbit-not-quite-dead-yet-1549626325
