As the night covered Cape Canverals, India entered a new morning, when Falcon -9 rocket picked up the 2.31AM ET (12.01pm IST) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the pilot seat of ‘Dragon’, Axiom-4 Space Capsules that will take a four-member crew at the International Space Station on Thursday, India’s group captain Shubanshu Shukla.“Namskar, Mere Paire Desh Vasian,” Shukla did radio in minutes of Earth after entering space. “What a ride! Later, PM Modi congratulated the mission and posted that Shukla is “on the way to become the first Indian to go to ISS”.After the flight of Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma on Soviet Soyuz T -11 on 3 April 1984, Shukla became the first Indian to cross the ‘Karman Line’ in 41 years. Shukla’s message from space – “This is not the beginning of my visit to ISS, but the beginning of India’s human space flight program” – inspires India’s ambition to its own space station and moon and further missions by 2035.Following several sites, the AX-4 mission on Wednesday removed Commander Paigi Whitson (US), 65, Mission Pilot Shukla, 39, and Mission experts Sylawosz Uznanski (Poland), 41, and Tibor Kapu (Hungary), 34, to take on a 14-day mission. Earlier, the symbolic “crew handover” occurred. Four astronauts waved their families before going to launchpad in Tesla. Stuck in the dragon capsules, the crew started undergoing the final check as the countdown proceeded. Post lift-off, capsules separated from the second stage nine minutes, 38 seconds later, which begins its journey of ISS. Capsule, now named ‘Grace’, is expected to do a dock with ISS on 4.30pm IST on Thursday.
The Dragon Capsule “Grace” separated from Falcon after 9 minutes of launch and is now orbiting Earth at a speed of 27,000 kmph. Nasal cone deployed. The navigation equipment and docking sensors exposed as spacecraft begin their accurate pursuit of the International Space Station.Grace Circle Earth once every 90 minutes. The journey is not a straight line and docking is not immediate. In the next 24 to 28 hours, the capsules will execute a series of thruster burn – each for another – to increase and fix their orbit, align perfectly with the trajectory of the station.A little delay can transfer narrow randezavas window. Onboard systems track the situation in real time using GPS, radar and sensor, constantly updating the path of Grace against ISS.FThe inced approach begins on Thursday. The dragon will stop in a predetermined manner, start 400 meters out and move forward in stages. At each stop, the ground controller and onboard software have been assessed whether the conditions are correct to move forward.At a distance of 20 meters, laser sensors and cameras handle. Grace proceeds a few centimeters in a second, which is fine with the docking port of the harmony module.Soft capture comes first – magnetic guides gently pull the capsules into place. Then the hard capture is as follows, as the mechanical latch seals the lock and connection. The hatch opening is not immediate. Engineers conduct pressure and leakage checks before approved the crew transfer on Earth.Four AXIOM-4 are astronauts and a fifth member-a soft, white baby Swan toy toy to the mission as a zero-gurutavatavavatavavatavakarshan indicator. Joy borne the personal meaning: Group captain Shubanshu Shukla’s six -year -old son, Kish, was chosen – the name was called – in the mind.“Our first ideas consisted of all animals,” said Mission expert Tibor Kapu. “We have a child with the crew, the baby of the shocks, who originally loves animals. We wanted dinosaurs and lions, but we did not find right.
