Venus Orbiter
Akatsuki
Akatsuki is currently about 44,756,790 kilometres from Earth, or 0.299 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 2.5 minutes out. It is 0.725 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
- 44,756,790 km (0.299 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 108,504,259 km (0.725 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 2.5 minutes
The mission
- Status
- Historical
- Operator
- JAXA
- Launched
- 2010
- Operating
- Venus