What is "akatsuki"

, also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, is a Japanese ( JAXA) space probe tasked to study the atmosphere of Venus. It was launched aboard an H-IIA 202 rocket on 20 May 2010, and failed to enter orbit around Venus on 6 December 2010. After the craft orbited the Sun for five years, engineers placed it into an alternative elliptical Venusian orbit on 7 December 2015 by firing its attitude control thrusters for 20 minutes. By using five different cameras,'' Akatsuki'' will study the stratification of the atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and cloud physics.

is the Japanese word for " dawn" or "daybreak". It may refer to:

• Akatsuki (spacecraft), also known as PLANET-C or as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO), an uncrewed Venus-orbiter spacecraft

• , three classes of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy

• , three destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy

• Akatsuki (train), a Japanese sleeping car train operated between Kyoto and Nagasaki

The was an overnight sleeper train service in Japan operated by JR West from Kyoto Station to Nagasaki Station and return. It ran on the Tōkaido, Sanyō, Kagoshima, and Nagasaki main lines.

From October 2005, the train ran coupled with the Naha sleeper between Kyoto Station and Tosu Station.

Due to falling passenger numbers, both the Naha and Akatsuki services ceased following the March 15, 2008 timetable revision.

is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 1, 1963, and was broadcast until April 4, 1964. It was the third Asadora series broadcast on NHK. It starred Shin Saburi as a college professor who quit his job to try to become a painter.