AXIOM-4 MISSION

GS III (TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BIO-DIVERSITY, ENVIRONMENT, SECURITY AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT)

Published on:

20 Aug 2024, 12:55 pm

In partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has selected two of its four trained Gaganyaan astronauts for the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Axiom-4 Mission

Axiom Mission 4 (or Ax-4) is a private spaceflight to the International Space Station.
It is operated by Axiom Space, an American privately funded space infrastructure developer and uses a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
It is in collaboration with NASA and will be the fourth flight of Axiom Space after Axiom Mission 1, Axiom Mission 2 and Axiom Mission 3.
Axiom-4 will continue the company's pioneering efforts to establish a sustainable human presence in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) which is scheduled to launch in 2024.
It aims to dock with the ISS for a fourteen-day duration.
As part of the objectives of India-US space collaboration, SpaceX, NASA, and other international partners will train Indian astronauts in emergency preparedness and spacecraft systems.