The Crew Dragon Freedom is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station on 2024-01-20 at 4:19 a.m. Eastern.
Ax-3 featured the third flight of the Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft and the fifth flight of the Falcon 9 booster used on the mission.
The Ax-3 launch had been scheduled for 2024-01-17 but was delayed less than six hours before the planned liftoff to provide more time to review Crew Dragon parachute straps known as energy modulators.
A Falcon 9 was scheduled to lift off 2024-01-17 at 5:11 p.m. Eastern to place a Crew Dragon spacecraft into orbit that would dock with the International Space Station about 36 hours later.
The Ax-3 mission will reuse the same Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 booster that supported the Ax-2 mission in May 2023.
Ax-3 is scheduled to launch on 2023-01-09 at 8:18 p.m. Eastern using a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9.
The Crew Dragon on Polaris Dawn will fly an orbit that reaches altitudes of up to 1,400 km.
Axiom has begun sending commercially funded missions to the ISS using SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle.
The flight is expected to use the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle and travel to the International Space Station (ISS).
A study announced in September 2022 involving Jared Isaacman, SpaceX, and NASA examined the feasibility of a private mission to reboost and possibly repair Hubble using SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.
Ax-3 will launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and will spend up to 14 days on the International Space Station.
Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission launched on 2022-04-08 on a Crew Dragon to the International Space Station.
Crew Dragon Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station at 7:05 a.m. Eastern on 2023-09-03.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida at 12:17 a.m. Eastern on 2023-09-04, completing the Crew-6 mission.
The Crew-6 members are scheduled to depart the International Space Station on the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour no earlier than 2023-09-01, depending on weather at splashdown sites off the Florida coast.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance docked with the zenith port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 9:16 a.m. Eastern on 2023-08-27.
NASA planned a five-day handover between Crew-6 and Crew-7 before Crew-6 departs on the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour.
The next Crew Dragon mission to the ISS, Crew-8, is scheduled to launch in early 2024 with three NASA astronauts and one Roscosmos cosmonaut.
The Crew-7 launch was originally scheduled for 2023-08-25 but was postponed several hours before liftoff to review a component of the Crew Dragon life support system known as ECLSS.
Vast is working with SpaceX to launch Haven-1 and to use Crew Dragon spacecraft to transport astronauts to the station.