Venus loses its last active spacecraft, as Japan has just officially declared Akatsuki orbiter dead
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/venus-loses-its-last-active-spacecraft-as-japan-declares-akatsuki-orbiter-dead
Venus loses its last active spacecraft, as Japan has just officially declared Akatsuki orbiter dead
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/venus-loses-its-last-active-spacecraft-as-japan-declares-akatsuki-orbiter-dead
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Do you want pod people? Because that’s how you get pod people?
It’s a bit sad. Venus is more Earth like than Mars. It’s run away green house effects can teach us a lot about our own climate. The Venera missions created some of the toughest space craft ever built. I’m personally more interested in the idea of floating cities in the upper atmosphere of Venus than I am about Martian colonization.
she can rest for a bit while we try and keep ourselves from dying back on earth.
Looks like Naruto killed the satellite because Japan was hunting for tailed beasts on Venus. Just another day.
Our next missions to Venus are uncertain. NASA was in prep for DAVINCI and VERITAS, but both are at threat of losing funding in Trump’s 2026 NASA budget request, which slashes agency funding by 24% and cancels dozens of science missions.
ESA’s EnVision orbiter looks the likeliest next mission
It’s too bad we can’t work on VERITAS because Trump hates science.
Venus doesn’t get nearly as much attention and research as it deserves