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    Overview of Venus orbiter, Akatsuki

    The Akatsuki spacecraft of Japan was launched on May 21, 2010. The spacecraft planned to enter a Venus-encircling near-equatorial orbit in December 7, 2010; however, the Venus orbit insertion maneuver has fail...

    M. Nakamura, T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki in Earth, Planets and Space (2011)

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    Particle size distributions inside and around the artificial crater produced by the Hayabusa2 impact experiment on Ryugu

    Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully carried out an impact experiment using a small carry-on impactor (SCI) on an asteroid (162173) Ryugu. We examine the size distribution of particles inside and out...

    K. Ogawa, N. Sakatani, T. Kadono, M. Arakawa, R. Honda, K. Wada in Earth, Planets and Space (2022)