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Ax-4 was launched on June 25, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complicated 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Centre in Florida, in line with ANI. The Dragon spacecraft efficiently docked with the ISS on June 26 at 4:05 pm (IST), forward of schedule, connecting to the space-facing port of the station’s Concord module.
As per a press release of Axiom House, after roughly 433 hours, 18 days, and 288 orbits round Earth, protecting almost 7.6 million miles since docking with the Worldwide House Station, the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew is formally homeward certain.
The most recent key updates from the Axiom-4 Mission are:
-SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, together with the crew, efficiently undocked from the ISS on Monday.
-Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and the crew are anticipated to splash down tomorrow (Tuesday).
-Axiom 4 aboard the SpaceX Dragon undocked from the station’s Concord module at 7:15 am ET on Monday, finishing a two-and-a-half-week area analysis mission.
-Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, and Mission Specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski and Tibor Kapu undocked from the orbiting laboratory on Monday at 6:15 a.m. CT, marking the conclusion of their onboard mission.
-The spacecraft may even execute a collection of departure burns to maneuver away from the ISS.
Shubhanshu Shukla’s Farewell Speech
Shubhanshu Shukla, in his farewell speech for the Axiom-4 mission, quoted the enduring phrases of Cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma, the primary Indian in area, and stated, “Aaj ka Bharat abhi bhi saare jahaan se acha dikhta hai” (Right now’s India remains to be extra splendid than all the world).”
As per NASA, the Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth with greater than 580 kilos of cargo, together with NASA {hardware} and knowledge from over 60 experiments carried out through the mission.
(with ANI inputs)
