کاوشگر آکاتسوکی
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defunct Venus orbiter operated by JAXA
Key facts
- Names
- Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO), PLANET-C
- Mission type
- Venus orbiter
- Operator
- JAXA
- Cospar id
- 2010-020D
- Website
- JAXA , JAXA Special Site
- Mission duration
- 13 years, 11 months
- Manufacturer
- NEC Space Technologies
- Launch mass
- 517.6 kg (1,141 lb)
- Dry mass
- 320 kg (710 lb)
- Dimensions
- 1.04 × 1.45 × 1.44 m (3.4 × 4.8 × 4.7 ft)
- Power
- >700 watts at 0.7 AU
- Launch date
- 21 May 2010, 21:58:22 ( 2010-05-21UTC21:58:22Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Launch site
- Tanegashima YLP-1
- Declared
- 18 September 2025
- Last contact
- April 2024
- Reference system
- Cytherocentric
- Pericytherion altitude
- 1,000–10,000 km (620–6,210 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Parent body
- Venus
- Mass
- 321.3
- Orbital period
- 10.8
- Official website
- global.jaxa.jp/projects/sas/planet_c
- Image
- Akatsuki CG01.png
- Height
- 2.12
- Width
- 5.062
- Length
- 2.101
- Has use
- research
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- native label
- あかつき
- space launch vehicle
- H-IIA
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2010-05-20
- commissioned by
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Commons category
- Akatsuki (spacecraft)
- powered by
- photovoltaic system
- periapsis
- 10000
- apoapsis
- 370000
- orbital inclination
- 3
- social media followers
- 68916
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 190000
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.95
- service life
- 13.9
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