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Axiom Space gained initial NASA approval for the venture in January 2020. Axiom Space was later awarded the contract by NASA on February 28, 2020. [2] Axiom Station is one of multiple Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) projects supported by NASA to build a successor to the International Space Station (ISS) before its decommissioning in 2030.
Axiom Space, Inc., also known as Axiom Space, is an American privately funded space infrastructure developer headquartered in Houston, Texas. Founded in 2016 by Michael T. Suffredini and Kam Ghaffarian, the company first flew a spaceflight in 2022: Axiom Mission 1, the first commercially crewed private spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS).
Axiom Space won a 2021 bid process and was awarded a contract $140 million to build, and then attach, its modules to the International Space Station. [2] In December 2024, Axiom Space revised its station assembly plans to enable the autonomous operation of the Axiom Station after two launches, with only one module being attached to the ISS in ...
U.S.-based startup Axiom Space is exploring using Indian launch vehicles to support its international space station mission, a senior executive said on Tuesday. Axiom Space is one of the few ...
MILAN (Reuters) -Italian luxury group Prada and Houston-based startup Axiom Space unveiled on Wednesday the design of a spacesuit that will be used for NASA's Artemis 3 mission to the moon that is ...
The Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) flight, once again using a SpaceX Crew Dragon launching from Kennedy Space Center, is slated for no earlier than January 2024. It will be flying up one astronaut each ...
In 2016, he co-founded another company, Houston-based Axiom Space, with Michael Suffredini. [6] [13] The company is focusing on private space missions and facilities and planned to build the first private space station. [14] As of October 2019, Ghaffarian was appointed to the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Board of Directors.
Axiom Mission 4 (or Ax-4) is a private spaceflight to the International Space Station. The flight will launch no earlier than May 2025 and last about 16 days. [ 1 ] It will be operated by Axiom Space and use a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.