After a year of attempting contact, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Tuesday that its Akatsuki ...

For nearly a decade, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft circled Venus, offering scientists rare glimpses into the planet’s turbulent ...

The last voice from Venus has gone quiet. Japan’s Akatsuki mission, once the planet’s only active observer, has finally fallen silent after years of trailblazing science.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a ...

Hatsune Miku is being retired. After more than a decade in orbit, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft has officially gone silent. The mission—designed to study Venus’s atmosphere—was declared complete by JAXA ...

On September 22, it was reported that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) initiated the termination procedure for the Venus Climate Orbiter 'Akatsuki' (PLANET-C) on September 18, marking the ...

Japan’s pioneering Akatsuki spacecraft, the last active probe orbiting Venus, has bid its final farewell. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially terminated the Venus Climate ...

Akatsuki had completed its regular two-year operation that started in April 2016, after which its operation was extended to another three-year period as there still remained fuel for controlling its ...

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided to abandon its Akatsuki Venus orbiter, after losing contact with the craft last year. JAXA launched Akatsuki, a name that translates to “Dawn” in ...

Abstract: We found that the solar panel output current of JAXA's Venus explorer Akatsuki is below values expected from percentage of shadow during penumbras. We also found that a similar phenomenon ...

International ground-based telescope teams are invited to the Venus disk observation campaign to elucidate mysteries near the cloud top-level atmosphere of Venus. This is a unique coordination with ...