Axiom Space announced that they were collaborating closely with NASA to evaluate the pressure anomaly in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS).

“Axiom Space is now aiming for June 19, 2025 for the launch of the Ax-04 mission”, Isro mentioned.

Neither Axiom Space nor NASA have made a formal announcement regarding the new launch date.

Originally set for May 29,
the launch was pushed back to June 8 after an issue was found in the electrical harness of the Crew Dragon module, as Isro had stated earlier.

It was then delayed by a day to June 9 which wasn’t announced publicly and subsequently rescheduled to June 10.

According to Isro, this delay was caused by the Falcon-9 vehicle not being ready for the launch.

The launch originally set for June 10 has been pushed back again, this time because of bad weather along the rocket’s ascent path.

While getting ready for a hot fire test on June 8, SpaceX engineers discovered a liquid oxygen (LOX) leak in the Falcon-9. They also found an issue with one of the engine actuators, which was later swapped out along with its controller.

Hoping for a quick fix to the LOX leak, the mission was first pushed back to June 11.

At this point, SpaceX and Axiom-4 mission partners chose to delay the launch even more to perform a test to confirm the
fixes made.

Isro has emphasized that it is very focused on crew safety and that it wanted all issues to be “totally resolved” before proceeding with the launch.

Even though SpaceX addressed those issues by June 12, Axiom Space and NASA announced another postponement due to a leak found in the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS.

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