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Axiom Mission 3 (or Ax-3) was a private spaceflight to the International Space Station. The flight launched on 18 January 2024, [1] and lasted for 21 days, successfully splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. [3] It was operated by Axiom Space and used a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. [4]
Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.34% and have been launched 457 times over 15 years, resulting in 454 full successes, two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9–3), one pre-flight failure (AMOS-6 while being prepared for an on-pad static fire test), and one partial failure (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station ...
The Dragon spacecraft, named Freedom, is a veteran of the SpaceX Crew-4 and Axiom Space's Ax-2 and Ax-3 missions. [8] The Falcon 9 first-stage booster, designated B1085, will be making its second flight.
Both the Crew Dragon vessel and the Falcon 9 rocket that carried it to orbit were supplied, launched and operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX under contract with Axiom, as they were in the first two ...
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 ...
The Houston-based commercial space company is targeting Wednesday at 5:11 p.m. ET for SpaceX to launch three Axiom Space private astronauts and Axiom Space Commander Michael López-Alegría to the ...
Axiom Mission 2 (or Ax-2) was a private crewed spaceflight operated by Axiom Space. Ax-2 was launched on 21 May 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9, successfully docking with the International Space Station (ISS) on 22 May. [3] [2] After eight days docked to the ISS, the Dragon crew capsule Freedom undocked and returned to Earth twelve hours later. [4]
It first launched on 27 April 2022 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX Crew-4 mission. It was subsequently used for two private spaceflight missions to the ISS operated by Axiom Space, Axiom Mission 2 in May 2023 and Axiom Mission 3 in January 2024. It most recently launched to space in September 2024 on the SpaceX Crew-9 ...