Akatsuki
JAXA
Japan’s Venus orbiter: it missed its first arrival in 2010 and got into orbit five years later, watching Venus’ clouds until 2024.
Open in 3DThe flight
May 21, 2010
Launch
December 6, 2010
Flies past Venus, 6,912 km away
November 16, 2015
Arrives at Venus
August 6, 2025
Arrives at Venus
August 6, 2025
Lands on Venus
August 23, 2025
JPL’s track of it ends
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Akatsuki (spacecraft)
Japanese orbiter mission to Venus (2010–2024)
Akatsuki , also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, was a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) space probe tasked with studying the atmosphere of Venus. It was launched aboard an H-IIA 202 rocket on 20 May 2010, but failed to enter orbit around Venus on 6 December 2010.
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- What it is
- Orbiter
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