Akatsuki is Japan's mission dedicated to studying the climate of Venus and currently the only active spacecraft in orbit around the second planet from the sun. The $300 million spacecraft launched ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has every reason to celebrate right now. Back in 2010, the agency's Venus Climate Orbiter, known by the name Akatsuki ("dawn"), failed to make it into ...

During Akatsuki’s 2010 attempt, instead of positioning itself to fly into Venus’s elliptical equatorial orbit, the spacecraft’s malfunctioning engine’s prevented it from properly braking ...

We will announce our policy as soon as it has been decided," JAXA said in the update. Japan's first space probe launched in May 21, 2010, aboard an H2-A rocket heading for Venus.

Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft has finally entered orbit around Venus after taking a five-year detour through the solar system. Launched in May 2010 by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), Akatsuki failed ...

If all went well, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft is now in orbit around Venus — five years later than its engineers originally planned. However, it will be a few days before the Japanese mission ...

JAXA, the Japanese space agency, confirmed Wednesday that it has lost communication with its Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around Venus. In its update, the space agency said it failed to establish ...

JAXA began reading data from Akatsuki in 2016. Plan for inflatable space bases where astronauts will live on moon & Mars Akatsuki is the only operational spacecraft at Venus.

A Japanese spacecraft's long-awaited Venus campaign is finally about to begin. Japan's Akatsuki probe was originally supposed to arrive at Venus in December 2010, but an engine failure caused the ...

JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Damia Bouic. The photograph was also shared as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day in January 2018, with the caption, "Venus at Night in Infrared from Akatsuki." ...

JAXA began reading data from Akatsuki in 2016. Plan for inflatable space bases where astronauts will live on moon & Mars Akatsuki is the only operational spacecraft at Venus.