2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
Akatsuki
Entered Venus orbit in 2015 after an initial insertion failure; studies Venus’s atmosphere.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 2010
- Lead / partner
- Japan
- Target
- Venus
- Category
- Planetary orbiter
- Status
- Partial success
- Vehicle
- H-IIA 202
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Cytherocentric
Why it happened
Akatsuki flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of Japan's work toward venus. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Entered Venus orbit in 2015 after an initial insertion failure; studies Venus’s atmosphere.
Results
Entered Venus orbit in 2015 after an initial insertion failure; studies Venus’s atmosphere.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- 宇宙航空研究開発機構・宇宙科学研究所(JAXA/ISAS) 、https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/r, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · license: cc-by-4.0 (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
