The launch of the Axiom-4 mission has been deferred by a day due to bad weather. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shared the information on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. Shubhanshu Shukla will be India’s second national astronaut to go to space since 1984.
Isro posted a tweet on X, “Due to weather conditions, the launch of Axiom-4 mission for sending Indian Gaganyatri to International Space Station is postponed from 10th June 2025 to 11th June 2025.
The targeted time of launch is 5:30 PM IST on 11th June 2025.”
Launch of Axiom-4 mission to International Space Station:
Due to weather conditions, the launch of Axiom-4 mission for sending Indian Gaganyatri to International Space Station is postponed from 10th June 2025 to 11th June 2025.
The targeted time of launch is 5:30 PM IST on 11th…---Advertisement---— ISRO (@isro) June 9, 2025
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh wrote on X, “Due to adverse weather, the launch of the Axiom-4 mission carrying Indian Gaganyatri to the International Space Station is rescheduled from June 10 to possibly June 11, 2025. Further updates, if any, will be shared accordingly.”
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— Dr Jitendra Singh (@DrJitendraSingh) June 9, 2025
Due to adverse weather, the launch of the Axiom-4 mission carrying Indian Gaganyatri to the International Space Station is rescheduled from June 10 to possibly June 11, 2025.
Further update, if any, will be accordingly shared.
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Earlier, In a video message shared by Axiom Space, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla shared a stirring message ahead of his departure. The video by Axiom Space praised his technological prowess and described him as a fighter pilot for 15 years.
In the video message he said, “Namaste. I’m Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla. The first Indian astronaut wing commander Rakesh Sharma traveled to space in 1984. I grew up reading about him in textbooks and listening to his stories from space. I was deeply, deeply impressed by him. This journey that I’m on, it has been a long one for me. It started out somewhere. I didn’t know that this is the path it is going to finally take. I would say that I have been extremely fortunate and extremely lucky to have gotten the opportunities to first, fly all my life, which was a dream job for me, and then have the opportunity to apply to astronaut’s core, and now consequently be here. The way this worked out for me was that probably a week before we arrived at Axiom was the time I came to know that I would be going. I was extremely excited to be here. I was very, very happy because this was a possibility for me to actually fly to space. You don’t know how to respond to such things.”
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is part of Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission (Ax-4), marking a historic moment for India’s space collaboration with NASA.
