The AXIOM Mission 4 presents an official picture before its flight to the International Space Station. From the left: Shubhanshu Shukla, Pagi Whitson, Soloz Uznoski, and Tibor Kapu. Credit: NASA/Mark A. Garcia
Mission Highlight: Axiom 4 – A historical multinational effort
AXIOM Mission 4 (AX-4), EDT from Kennedy Space Center on June 11 at 8:00 am, will take crew members from India, Poland and Hungary-will present the first mission of each country at the international space station. The historic flight will be commanded by NASA veteran Paigi Whitson and will have an important milestone in the commercial spaceflight. See launch live,
The mission will be operated by Shubhanshu Shukla, which will become India’s second national astronaut to reach space since 1984. BBCShukla reflected the emotional weight of this moment, saying, “As I go to space, I not only take equipment and equipment, I take the hopes and dreams of one billion hearts.”
Also on the board is Sylawosz Uznoski, astronaut of a European space agency project and another astronaut of Poland, and the second national astronaut of Hungary Since 1980, Tibor Kapu. The mission will be commanded by NASA veteran Pegi Whitson, which combines its permanent record for the longest cumulative time by an American Astronweight. This marks its second commercial human spaceflight mission.
It has an ambitious research agenda to separate the AX-4, with around 60 scientific studies, which represent 31 countries, including the US, India, Poland, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates and the entire Europe. It marks the most comprehensive research portfolio of any self -discovery space mission of human health, earth observation and biological and physics, demonstrating increasing global investment in microgravity research.
The highlights also have a new partnership between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which is collaborating on several investigations aboard the AX-4 mission. These include the use of muscle regeneration, the growth of sprouts and food microalgies, the existence of small aquatic organisms, and how the human space interacts with electronic displays in space.
According to Axiom Space, “AX-4 Mission stands as a beacon of opportunity for India, Poland and Hungary, each prepared to take advantage of this mission to carry forward its national space programs.” This mission underlines how commercial spaceflight is creating new avenues to participate in the space economy and contributes to the understanding of humanity to live and work in space.
Other missions this week
Starlink Group 12-24 On June 10, Falcon 9 at 9:03 pm Cape will rise from Canveral to EDT. The mission will distribute more starlink satellites into the classroom, including a mixture of direct-to-sales and standard V2-mini satellites for SpaceX’s extended internet service.
Mountain God guard Mission will use EDT’s electron vehicle to the EDT at 11:15 pm on June 1 to 11 to 11 to 11 June. The launch is an IQPS synthetic aperture radar satellite, part of the planned 36-satellite constellation of IQPS, capable of monitoring specific points on Earth every 10 minutes, even through clouds and adverse weather.
Starlink Group 15-6 On June 12, a Falcon was launched at 9 Block 5, which was 9:46 pm from Wandenberg Space Force Base. This mission will deploy another batch of Starlink V2-Mini satellites to expand the internet constellation of Speax.
Project Kuper (ka-02) The United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V551 rocket will be used by Cape Canverals on June 13 at 2:29 pm. The mission will deploy Amazon’s second prototype Kuper broadband satellite, which is part of a employed 3,236-satellite planetarium that will provide the internet usage from the low Earth’s orbit.
Chinese aerospace science and technology corporation (CASC) Jiuquan in China is set to launch a long March 2D rocket at EDT from Satellite Launch Center on 13 June at 3:55 pm. This mission will take an unspecified payload to the orbit of low earth.
Starlink Group 12-26 Round out with another Falcon 9 Block 5 at 7:45 pm on June 13 with the week with 5 with 5. This mission will deploy additional Starlink V2-Mune satellites to continue the construction of SpaceX’s global internet service.
looking ahead
Given further for the week of June 16-22, several launch are on the horizon. On 16 June, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V551 will take a national security payload from Cape Canveral, and SpaceX has been slated to launch Starlink Group 15-9 on Falcon 9 from Wandenberg SFB, which continues to expand its low meaning orbit internet network. On 18 June, Russia is expected to launch a Angara A5 rocket from the plasettsk cosmodrome carrying a classified military payload. On June 21, the weekend will be raised from SpaceX’s latest small satellite rideshare mission, transporter -14, from Wandenberg to Sun -Synchronous Orbit.
