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Akatsuki: The Venus mission that cheated death and made history

Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft was never supposed to survive. After a failed Venus orbit insertion in 2010, it drifted through ...
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Japan just shut down a spacecraft that cheated death for 10 years, here’s what it saw on Venus

Japan’s Akatsuki mission officially ended in September 2025 after more than a decade of operations and a final year of complete radio silence. Launched in 2010 by JAXA and operated by ISAS, the ...