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Names | Ax-2 |
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Mission type | Private spaceflight to the ISS |
Operator | |
COSPAR ID | 2023-070A |
SATCAT no. | 56739![]() |
Website | axiomspace |
Mission duration | 9 days, 5 hours, 26 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Crew Dragon Freedom |
Spacecraft type | Crew Dragon |
Manufacturer | SpaceX |
Crew | |
Crew size | 4 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 21 May 2023, 21:37:09 UTC (5:37:09 pm EDT)[1] |
Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1080.1) |
Launch site | Kennedy, LC‑39A |
Contractor | SpaceX |
End of mission | |
Recovered by | MV Megan |
Landing date | 31 May 2023, 03:04 UTC |
Landing site | Gulf of Mexico |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Harmony zenith |
Docking date | 22 May 2023, 13:12 UTC |
Undocking date | 30 May 2023, 15:05 UTC |
Time docked | 8 days, 1 hour, 53 minutes[2] |
![]() Axiom Mission 2 patch ![]() From left: Whitson, Shoffner, AlQarni and Barnawi |
Axiom Mission 2 (or Ax-2) was a private crewed spaceflight operated by Axiom Space. Ax-2 was launched on 21 May 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9, successfully docking with the International Space Station (ISS) on 22 May.[3][2] After eight days docked to the ISS, the Dragon crew capsule Freedom undocked and returned to Earth twelve hours later.[4]
Ax-2 was the second Axiom mission after Axiom Mission 1 in April 2022 and the third private crewed SpaceX Dragon mission.
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