Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo of a cloudy Venus. The Japanese space agency said it has lost contact with its intrepid Venus spacecraft Akatsuki.

For nearly 10 years, there’s been only one spacecraft able to keep its cool above the hellish landscape of Venus. The Japanese Akatsuki probe was sent to Earth’s neighboring planet to observe its ...

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Hatsune Miku's voyage through space has finally come to an end after 15 long years. The Japanese space probe Akatsuki has officially ceased operations, as reported by Automaton. The probe was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "This was a mission that changed our view of our Earth-sized neighbor, and laid the path for new discoveries about what it takes ...

Update: Jaxa has confirmed that the orbital maneuver worked. Akatsuki is now in a stable elliptical orbit around Venus. While the new orbit will not allow for the same mission profile as was ...

Humanity's only mission in Venus is in limbo after a Japanese spacecraft went dark last month, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed. The JAXA space agency said it lost communication with ...

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 May 21, 2010, the Akatsuki orbiter ("Dawn" in Japanese) launched from the Tanegashima Space Center atop a H-IIA Launch Vehicle, establishing orbit around Venus in December 2015. In so doing, ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese probe to Venus failed to reach orbit Wednesday and was captured by the sun's gravitational pull in a setback to Japan's shoestring space program, which will have to wait ...

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