Axiom Space prepares for its fourth mission to the ISS

Axiom plans to launch space its fourth mission On Tuesday, June 10, CEO Tejpaul Bhatia described as “a little victory of victory.”

In addition to being the fourth mission for the Special Space Company’s International Space Station, Bhatia, AX-4, AxIom Space said that all customers of the AxIom will be “completely national missions”. In fact, as the company, both India, Poland and Hungary, called the “return of the return”, and called this mission as an astronaut on the flight.

In addition, Bhatia said the company will be the first “continuous” after the loser of the first three. It stressed that these ISS missions are “not our business model” – the company plans to easily leave and add commercial modules to ISS, which are free flyers Stock station.

At the same time, Bhatia said that these initial missions have brought income and help explain the demand for a trade spacecraft. Moreover, each of the customer countries create inspiring “Apollo moments”.

“This shows how the space is opened according to commercial companies,” he said. “For three countries, this will be the second astronaut. And the space racing 1.0 shows the passage for space racing 2.0.”

So far AxIom space missions have used Spacex Dragon space ship to bring the astronauts to ISS. The role of the company, Bhatia, is to serve as a “market integrator and broker” that can bring together missions. As the trade spaceman expands, the “no one can do it alone” because the “managed market place”.

“To be very planetary, it is not something that there is all the opportunities in one country,” he said.

Trade Space travel prospects have been identified less than the last few days Sliding between President Donald Trump and Spacex CEO Elon Musk LED Trump announced that the dragon has canceled government contracts with musk and musk, because the dragon spacecraft has commissioned. (Later retreated.)

AXIOM space refused to comment on how Trump-Musk Feud could affect the industry, but when I speak in late May, I asked a question about the political landscape, or Potential budget is cut in NASA and more wide Between scientific research Threatened with the optimistic vision he was presented.

“This will be launched in the government,” said Bhatia. “They already did it. [Now] It is entrepreneurs that will use the construction platforms from the bridge to the next stage. “

CEO is actually relatively new to the existing role. When we talked, Bhatia said it was only fourth week Dr. co-founder of the company. To replace Kam Gaffarian as the chief executive. (Ghaffarian continues to serve as the executive of the company.)

However, Bhatia – previously had an executive in Google Cloud – the company had four years as a chief officer. Although his career did not take place before joining the Aksiom space, he said, “He was as young as:” I was asleep, always about space. “

And as the General Manager of any good space company, Bhatia has the hope of traveling to the last border.

“I’d like to go,” he said. “There is no doubt that we will all go.”