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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 4

Name: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 4
Start: 2025-06-25T06:31:52.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

SpaceX's 530th launch · 81st this year · humanity's 6,989th orbital launch attempt

T− --:--:--June 25, 2025 · 06:31 UTCAdd to calendar

Success90% go

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Weather concerns: Cumulus Cloud Rule, Flight Through Precipitation

Window: Jun 25, 06:31 – Jun 25, 06:31 UTC

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Axiom Space Mission 4

This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. This crew will stay aboard space station for at least eight days.

Tourism · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Crew

Peggy WhitsonCommander · AXS
Shubhanshu ShuklaPilot · ISRO
Sławosz UznańskiMission Specialist · ESA
Tibor KapuMission Specialist

Booster

B1094 · flight 2 · Return to Launch Site @ Landing Zone 1 · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-10 · zone record 53/54

Watch

Axiom Mission 4 Launches to the International Space Station — NASA
Launch of Axiom Mission 4 with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski — European Space Agency, ESA
Ax-4 Mission | Launch — SpaceX
Live coverage: Commercial space station crew launch aboard new SpaceX Dragon — Spaceflight Now
🚀 SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Crewed Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) — NASASpaceflight
Axiom Mission 4 Launches to the International Space Station — NASA

Flight timeline

T−45MGO for Prop Load
T−42MCrew Access Arm Retract
T−39MDragon LES Arm
T−35MProp Load
T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
T−7MEngine Chill
T−5MDragon Internal Power
T−1MTank Press
T−1MStartup
T−45SGO for Launch
T−3SIgnition
P0DLiftoff
T+57SMax-Q
T+2M25SMECO
T+2M28SStage 2 Separation
T+2M36SSES-1
T+2M42SBooster Boostback Burn Startup
T+3M28SBooster Boostback Burn Shutdown
T+6M18SEntry Burn Startup
T+6M30SEntry Burn Shutdown
T+7M22SStage 1 Landing Burn
T+7M39SStage 1 Landing
T+8M48SSECO-1
T+9M38SDragon Separation
T+10M26SDragon Nosecode Open

Updates

Launch success, spacecraft in orbit and functioning.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/25/2025 · source
Liftoff!
hitura-nobad · 6/25/2025 · source
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/24/2025 · source
Confirmed go for launch on June 25.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/24/2025 · source
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/23/2025 · source
NET June 25.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/23/2025 · source
Further delays pending additional investigation into ISS Russian Segment air leakage.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/19/2025 · source
Delayed to June 22.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/18/2025 · source
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/15/2025 · source
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/14/2025 · source

Pad — Launch Complex 39A

Local pad time: Jun 25, 2:31 AM EDT

222 launches from this pad · 281 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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