After several delays, according to the US Space Agency NASA, the AXIOM-4 mission is now slate to launch on Wednesday.
After carrying out India’s Shubanshu Shukla and three other astronauts, the mission has been scheduled to take off from the Complex 39A of the Kennedy Space Center to around the afternoon. After a 28-hour trip, the spacecraft is expected to do the dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at around 4:30 pm on Thursday. Astronauts are slated to spend about 14 days on ISS.
The new launch slot was announced on Tuesday morning, a day before the mission which was earlier scheduled for 22 June.
The mission has been delayed several times since the initial schedule of May 29 due to various reasons, ranging from problems in the launch vehicle and pressure on the ISS Zvezda module. The leakage in Zvezda was first discovered in 2019 and space agencies have been working for years to fix it. Axiom-4 was repaired in front of the mission.
NASA postponed the launch of June 22 with two days, saying, “Due to the mutual and interdependent systems of the space station, NASA wants to ensure that the station is ready for additional crew members, and the agency is taking the necessary time to review the data.”
The final delay was because according to an Indian official, there was a need to examine all systems. “Even after fixing the leak on the ISS, the US Space Agency had to check all the systems to see if they were affected.
Astronauts-US ‘Pegi Whitson, Slavose Uznanski-Visnivski of Poland, Hungary’s Tibor Kapu and Shukla-Maya, since the criteria, are summarized to ensure that they are summarized to prevent the introduction of insects in space and in space environment.
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The mission was also postponed due to problems in the electrical harness of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which was to carry the astronauts, a liquid oxygen leakage in the flan -9 rocket and weather bad weather in the flight road. This was followed by repair for leakage on ISS.
Themed ‘Return of Return’, the fourth private mission for ISS will see an Indian back in space after 40 years. In 1984, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma spent about eight days at the Soviet Salut -7 Orbital Station.
“When Rakesh Sharma went to space in 1984, India did not even have a launch pad. The first launch pad came in 1993 and second in 2005. Now, we are already gearing up for our own human mission. India is now a partner and is the forefront of research,” Union Moss Dr. Jitendra Singh had earlier told the Indian Express.
On the ISS, Shukla – is called “Shax” by its crew colleagues – will conduct seven experiments for India and will participate in many other international exercises. From the space station, he will virtually interaction with students, academics, dignitaries and representatives of the country’s debutant space industry.
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