Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: The launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), was postponed once again on June 20, as NASA and its partners continue technical evaluations, reported IANS. The mission, a collaboration between NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX, will no longer launch on June 22, with a new date to be announced in the coming days.
“@NASA, @Axiom_Space, and @ SpaceX continue reviewing launch opportunities for Axiom Mission 4. NASA is standing down from a launch on Sunday, June 22, and will target a new launch date in the coming days,” the International Space Station wrote in a post on X.
The latest delay follows continued assessments of recent repair work on the Russian Zvezda service module’s aft section aboard the ISS. The mission had originally been scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 29 but has since been rescheduled multiple times, first to June 8, then to June 10, June 11, and most recently June 19, before this latest postponement. The Ax-4 mission marks another milestone in the growing field of commercial spaceflight, bringing together international collaboration and private-sector innovation.
