Cytherocentric orbit

[citation needed] Venera 9 was the first satellite to achieve Venus orbit in 20 October 1975.

Akatsuki was the latest probe to achieve Venus orbit in 2015.

A noteworthy case is that of Japanese probe Akatsuki, which failed to enter orbit around Venus on 6 December 2010.

After the craft orbited the Sun for five years, engineers successfully placed it into an alternative Venusian elliptic orbit on 7 December 2015 by firing its attitude control thrusters for 20 minutes.

Magellan was the first interplanetary probe to use aerobraking to reduce the apocytherion.