Crewed commercial SpaceX mission will traverse the poles like the explorers of old
Fram2 would launch into a polar orbit from Florida in late 2024, after which it will stay up at 425-450 kilometers of altitude for three to five days.
A new commercial space mission will take off as early as this winter to observe the polar regions from low orbit — the first crewed mission to ever do so. It’s charmingly and anachronistically named Fram2, after the famous icebreaker used by Norwegian national hero Fridtjof Nansen to explore the arctic in the late 19th century.