SpaceX Ax-4 launch postponed: propellant leak (Space News)
SpaceX’s Ax-4 mission, carrying four private astronauts to the International Space Station, has been postponed due to technical issues. The launch was initially delayed due to a LOx propellant leak in the Falcon 9 rocket and a new air pressure leak in the Russian segment.
- Ax-4 Mission
- Axiom Space
- Build & Flight Reliability
- Crew Dragon capsule
- Falcon 9 rocket
- Human spaceflight
- ISS (International Space Station)
- Launch delay
- Liquid oxygen
- Pacific Ocean
- Peggy Whitson
- Prelaunch tests
- propellant leak
- Refurbishment
- Rocket engines.
- RP-1
- Science experiments
- Shubhanshu Shukla
- Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski
- SpaceX
- Splashdown
- Static fire test
- Tibor Kapu
- Troubleshooting
- William Gestmeier
Meet Axiom-4 Pilot Shubanshu Shukla (Space People)
Axiom Space is set to launch the first Indian astronaut to orbit since 1984, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, on the Ax-4 mission. The four-person mission will conduct research and tech demonstrations aboard the ISS for 14 days, with contributions from over 30 countries.
- Astronaut team
- Ax-4 Mission
- Axiom Space
- Cumulative time in space
- European Space Agency
- Experiments
- Gaganyaan
- Human spaceflight
- Indian astronaut
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- International Space Station (ISS)
- Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
- Large Hadron Collider
- Orbital human spaceflight.
- Peggy Whitson
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- Rakesh Sharma
- Research and technology demonstrations
- Shubhanshu Shukla
- Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski
- Space mission
- Spaceflight
- Tibor Kapu
- Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre