5 years after 1st try, Japan probe enters Venus orbit

After its first failure on December 6 2010, Japan’s maiden mission to Venus, Akatsuki or Venus Climate Orbiter, has successfully zoomed into the Venusian orbit, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) confirmed on Wednesday.
Through the last five years, the mission team monitored the spacecraft and on Monday fired its thrusters in a second attempt to make the spacecraft enter the orbit.According to Jaxa, in the last 48 hours the team monitored its performance and it officially confirmed on Wednesday that Akatsuki’s nail biting orbit insertion was a success.
Jaxa said it will deploy the three scientific mission on the spacecraft and check their functions.