Axiom-4 stay monitoring: NASA’s Axiom-4 mission crew together with Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others are set to start their journey again to Earth on Monday (July 14), after spending nearly two weeks on the Worldwide House Station (ISS).
The undocking of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the station’s Concord module is scheduled for roughly 7.05 am EDT (4.35 pm IST) Monday.
The splashdown off the coast of California, US, is predicted at 5.30 am EDT (3 PM IST) on Tuesday.
The replace in timings is topic to climate situations and have a margin window of roughly one hour, Union Minister for Science & Know-how and Earth Sciences Dr Jitendra Singh stated on Sunday.
In a publish on X, he specified the splashdown time and wrote: “As of now, undocking has been scheduled for tomorrow, 14th July at 4:30 pm IST. Arrival again to Earth…. splash down scheduled for fifteenth July at 3:00 pm IST.”
“Additional replace, if any, shall be shared accordingly,” Singh added.
Replace: #Axiom4 Worldwide House Station #ISS Mission:
As of now, undocking has been scheduled for tomorrow, 14th July at 4:30 PM IST.
Arrival again to earth…. splash down scheduled for fifteenth July at 3:00 PM IST.
These timings have a margin window of roughly 1 hour.…
— Dr Jitendra Singh (@DrJitendraSingh) July 13, 2025
On Saturday, NASA listed the schedule for its stay protection of the return. It had famous that undocking is predicted to start at 7.05 am ET (4.35 pm IST) on Monday, however made no point out of an approximate splashdown time. The timeline continues to be topic to vary based mostly on real-time operations.
NASA stay protection full schedule
4.30 am (2 pm IST) – Hatch closing protection begins on NASA+.
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4.55 am (2.25 pm IST) – Crew enters spacecraft adopted by hatch closing.
6.45 am (4.15 pm IST) – Undocking protection begins on NASA+, Axiom House, and SpaceX channels.
7.05 am (4.35 pm IST) – Undocking
NASA’s protection ends roughly half-hour after undocking when area station joint operations with Axiom House and SpaceX conclude.
Axiom House will resume protection of Dragon’s re-entry and splashdown on the corporate’s web site.
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Axiom Mission 4 is a part of NASA’s broader plan to foster a sustainable low Earth orbit economic system. Via such business missions, NASA seeks to accomplice with non-public entities for lower-cost providers, permitting the company to refocus efforts on deep area missions below its Artemis programme.
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