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New Indian Express
10 hours ago
- Science
- New Indian Express
Axiom-4 mission to launch on June 25
BENGALURU: The NASA team on Tuesday announced that they were targetting to launch the Axiom-4 mission on June 25, 2025. The launch is targeted for 2:31 a.m. ET, with a backup opportunity available on Thursday, June 26 at 2:09 a.m. ET, NASA in its release said. NASA, Axiom Space, ISRO and SpaceX are working together to launch the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The mission carries one Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is also the mission pilot. The mission will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will travel to the orbiting laboratory on a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after launching on the Falcon-9 rocket. The targeted docking time is approximately 7 a.m. Thursday, June 26, said NASA in its release. A live webcast of this mission will begin about two hours prior to liftoff, which can be viewed on X-platform at the @SpaceX handle. This is the first flight for the Dragon spacecraft supporting this mission. This will be the second flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched a Starlink mission. Following stage separation, Falcon 9's first stage will land on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. During their time on the orbiting laboratory, the crew will conduct more than 60 scientific experiments and demonstrations focused on human research, Earth observation, and life, biological, and material sciences, the teams said.
Saba Yemen
12-04-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Baghaei: Oman will continue to play mediating role in Iran-US negotiations
Tehran - Saba: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei emphasized in a post on X-platform that Oman will continue to play an important mediating role. According to Tasnim News Agency, Baghaei said in his post, Foreign Minister Dr. Araqchi returned from Muscat to Tehran after conducting a round of indirect negotiations with the US President's Special Representative on the issue of lifting sanctions and the nuclear file. He added, "We thank Oman and Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi for hosting and facilitating these negotiations. The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced that the first round of indirect negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States on the lifting of sanctions and the Iranian nuclear file ended minutes ago. During these negotiations, which were mediated by Oman, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi and Steve Witkoff, the US President's Special Envoy for Middle East Affairs, exchanged their governments' views and positions on Iran's peaceful nuclear program and the lifting of illegal sanctions imposed on Iran, through Oman's Foreign Minister. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
