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Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy are customers of Axiom Space who each paid an estimated $55,000,000 for the Ax-1 mission.
SpaceX launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft on 2022-04-08 carrying four commercial astronauts to the International Space Station for Axiom Space.
Axiom Space operates end-to-end missions to the International Space Station while privately developing Axiom Station, a planned permanent commercial destination in Earth orbit.
Ax-1 is Axiom Space’s first mission and a key milestone in Axiom Space’s long-term efforts to develop a commercial space station.
Ax-1 will use some station resources such as oxygen and Axiom will compensate NASA for those resources rather than being completely self-sufficient.
The SpaceX Ax-1 commercial mission for Axiom Space is scheduled to launch from Launch Complex 39A on 2022-04-08.
Axiom Space holds a $140,000,000 NASA contract to use a port on the International Space Station to attach commercial modules that will form the core of a later standalone space station.
Endeavour will be commanded by Michael López-Alegría, an Axiom employee and former NASA astronaut who spent six months on the ISS in 2006–2007.
Axiom Space plans to follow Ax-1 with Ax-2, slated for launch in early 2023 and to be commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson.
Axiom Space is targeting 2022-04-08 for the launch of its Ax-1 mission on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center.
Axiom Space has disclosed few financial details about Ax-1 and the three customers are rumored to have paid approximately $55,000,000 each.
Axiom Space received a $140,000,000 award from NASA in 2020 to develop a module that will be attached to the International Space Station as soon as 2024 and serve as a precursor for a stand-alone station.
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX completed a flight readiness review for the Ax-1 mission to the ISS on 2022-03-25.
Axiom Space was preparing for its Ax-1 mission to the International Space Station launching 2022-03-30.
Isotropic Systems unveiled its Axiom-X modem at the Satellite 2022 conference to support high-speed mobile communications across geostationary and non-geostationary orbit constellations.
The 2022-04-03 date for Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission is pending range availability.
Axiom Space moved the Ax-1 mission to the International Space Station from 2022-03-30 to 2022-04-03.
The AXIOM modems support Layer 2 bridging and Layer 3 routing with full QoS and traffic shaping.
The AXIOM modem line provides enhanced doppler capability of ±700 kHz and ±100 kHz/s to track fast-moving LEO or MEO satellites.
The AXIOM modems offer optimized spectral roll-offs including 5%, 10%, and 20%.