Ali AlQarni

Saudi - (SSA)

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Ali AlQarni is an astronaut representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and serving as a mission specialist on the Ax-2 mission. AlQarni graduated with a Bachelor of Aerospace Science from King Faisal Air Academy. AlQarni is an Air Force captain and fighter pilot. He has 12 years of experience flying fighter aircrafts and 2,387 flight hours.

Spaceflight Record

Ali AlQarni flew on one previous launch(es).

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 2

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
May 21, 2023, 9:37 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. This crew will stay aboard space station for at least eight days.

Low Earth Orbit B1080 - Maiden Flight Landing Zone 1

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CEO: Muhammad al-Tamimi

The Saudi Space Agency, previously known as the Saudi Space Commission (SSC), is a Saudi independent government entity established by a royal order on December 27, 2018 and elevated to an agency on June 14, 2023.

Recent Launches

Soyuz 2.1a

Success

22 hours, 10 minutes ago

Obzor-R No.1

43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Assignment of payloads to this launch is uncertain. The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite desi…

LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Success

2 days, 8 hours ago

BlueBird Block 2 #1

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, requi…

Long March 12A

Success

3 days, 10 hours ago

Demo Flight

Long March 12A Pad - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

First test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km …

HANBIT-Nano

Failure

3 days, 11 hours ago

Spaceward

HANBIT Pad - Alcântara Space Center, Federative Republic of Brazil

Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small sa…

H3-22

Failure

4 days, 10 hours ago

Michibiki 5 (QZS-5)

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 - Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve o…