Venus Orbiter
Akatsuki
Akatsuki is currently about 88,236,322 kilometres from Earth, or 0.590 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 4.9 minutes out. It is 0.727 astronomical units from the Sun.
Japan’s Venus climate orbiter, which studied the planet’s super-rotating atmosphere for nearly a decade before contact was lost in 2024.
The derelict spacecraft remains in its elliptical orbit around Venus.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 88,236,322 km (0.590 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 108,823,902 km (0.727 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 4.9 minutes
The mission
- Status
- Historical
- Operator
- JAXA
- Launched
- 2010
- Operating
- Venus