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,...

By remote sensing from the Venus orbit, the AKATSUKI aims at taking images of three-dimensional movement inside the thick Atmospheric layer. Comprehensive observation of wave motions and …

183-8501 Japan Abstract: The Japanese Venus explorer "Akatsuki (PLANET-C)",

This paper describes on-orbit operations of a power system for Japan’s Venus explorer Akatsuki. It was launched on May 20, 2010, and approached Venus on December 7, 2010, but orbit insertion...

‘Akatsuki’ is a Japanese word meaning ‘dawn’, and the spacecraft is also called the Venus Climate Orbiter. The results achieved from the interplanetary navigations in the Suisei, Nozomi, Hiten (Muses …

The main goal of AKATSUKI is to shed light on the mechanism driving the fast atmos-pheric circulation of Venus. The systematic imaging sequencing capability of AKATSUKI is advantageous for detecting …

In this paper, we discuss the trajectory design strategies for Akatsuki mission by introducing the constraints which come from the observation orbit and the spacecraft system.