Axiom-4 mission carrying Shubhanshu Shukla now eyes June 19 lift-off

A Falcon 9 rocket stands on the pad earlier than its upcoming launch of the Axiom-4 crewed mission to the Worldwide House Station at Launch Complicated 39-A in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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The much-delayed Axiom-4 business mission to the Worldwide House Station, carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others, is now focusing on a launch on June 19, the Indian House Analysis Organisation (ISRO) introduced on Saturday (June 14, 2025).

The Axiom House mission was to blast-off from NASA’s Kennedy House Centre in Florida on June 11, however needed to be delayed first attributable to a gas leak in SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket after which attributable to a leak within the Russian part of the Worldwide House Station (ISS).

“Throughout a follow-on coordination assembly between ISRO, Axiom House, and SpaceX, it was confirmed that the liquid oxygen leak noticed within the Falcon 9 launch car has been efficiently resolved,” the ISRO stated in a press release.

“Individually, Axiom House knowledgeable that they’re working carefully with NASA to evaluate the strain anomaly within the Zvezda Service Module on board the Worldwide House Station,” it stated.

“Axiom House is now focusing on June 19, 2025, for the launch of the Ax-04 mission,” ISRO stated.

The astronauts had been initially scheduled for lift-off on Might 29, which was delay to June 8, June 10 and June 11, when SpaceX, the suppliers of the launch rocket and the area capsule, detected a liquid oxygen leak within the Falcon-9 rocket.

Former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom House, Peggy Whitson, will command the business mission, whereas ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will function the pilot.

The 2 mission specialists are European House Company (ESA) undertaking astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.

The 14-day mission will “realise the return” to human spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary.