{"id":82954,"date":"2025-05-07T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/82954\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:12:10","slug":"ax-4-mission-with-group-captain-shubhanshu-shukla-may-get-delayed-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/82954\/","title":{"rendered":"Ax-4 mission, with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, may get delayed | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Group-Captain-Shubhanshu-Shukla.jpg\" alt=\"Ax-4 mission, with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, may get delayed\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> BENGALURU: The launch of the Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4), which will be piloted by Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, may be delayed due to a \u201cminor\u201d technical glitch.On April 29, Axiom Space and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nasa\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nasa<\/a> space operations had announced that Ax-4 will lift off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 1:03 pm Eastern Time Zone or around 10.33pm IST, on May 29. On Tuesday, Isro chairman V Narayanan, while talking about Ax-4, had indicated that the launch would be in the first week of June. His remark was made in the passing while introducing the mission at a conference and was not followed by any specific comments.When TOI checked to confirm if there was a delay, and what caused it, a source said: \u201cThere is a glitch that has been classified as \u2018minor\u2019 but the launch is still being targeted for May 29. At this juncture, there is nothing really \u2018concerning\u2019.\u201dAn Axiom spokesperson said: \u201cWe are targeting May 29. Nasa and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/spacex\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> will provide information if there are any changes.\u201dAx-4 will lift off aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, a reusable space capsule designed for human spaceflight, which will be launched by the Falcon-9 launch vehicle \u2014 SpaceX\u2019s workhorse known for its reusable first stage.Narayanan, had expressed \u201cfull confidence\u201d in both the launch vehicle, which he described as one of the \u201cmost reliable\u201d, and the spacecraft.The Ax-4 crew \u2014 Shukla, US\u2019s Peggy Whitson, the mission commander, Polish astronaut from European Space Agency (ESA) S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski and Hungary\u2019s Tibor Kapu \u2014 will spend up to 14 days at the orbiting laboratory.Shukla will be the first Indian astronaut to go to the ISS, and only the second Indian astronaut after Wing Commander (retd) Rakesh Sharma to go to space. Sharma went to space on a Soviet mission aboard Soyuz T-11, in April 1984.As reported by TOI earlier, Shukla will conduct seven experiments at ISS, which will help nurture a microgravity research ecosystem within India, potentially leading to more advanced space experiments across various disciplines in the future. The carefully selected experiments represent diverse scientific fields from leading Indian research institutions and have been chosen to advance knowledge in human health, agriculture, biotechnology, and physical sciences under microgravity conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENGALURU: The launch of the Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4), which will be piloted by Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[40117,1500,40116,10818,730,40115,10816,10817,7547,40114,40113,874,70,19065,413,1603,5685,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-82954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-axiom-4-mission","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-falcon-9-launch-vehicle","11":"tag-google-news","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-india-astronaut","14":"tag-india-news","15":"tag-india-news-today","16":"tag-iss","17":"tag-kennedy-space-centre","18":"tag-microgravity-research","19":"tag-nasa","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-shubhanshu-shukla","22":"tag-space","23":"tag-spacex","24":"tag-today-news","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114468850485976839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}