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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

thumb|400px|New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026 ↗

'''Backlog update'''

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

'''2024 and 2025 NPP Awards'''

74px|left ↗{{no ping|JTtheOG}} was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.
{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|MPGuy2824}} won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

{{no ping|BoyTheKingCanDance}}, {{no ping|Rosiestep}}, {{no ping|SunDawn}}, and {{no ping|Vanderwaalforces}} were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame ↗ for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

'''January–February backlog drive'''

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to {{no ping|JTtheOG}}, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

'''May backlog drive'''

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026 ↗.

'''PageTriage'''

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed ↗ to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket ↗ if you're interested in following along.

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''The Signpost'': 22 May 2026

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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 4

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| 2026 <br/> 1 — 30 April
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 4 — Issue 4
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|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"|Spaceflight Project ↗{{•}}Project discussion ↗{{•}}Members ↗{{•}}Assessment ↗{{•}}Open tasks ↗{{•}}Popular pages ↗{{•}}The Downlink ↗
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|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''In the News'''</span>
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Artemis II ↗, the first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17 ↗, was launched on 1 April. During the lunar flyby, it became the furthest spaceflight in human history on the 6th. ''Integrity'' ↗, the re-entry vehicle, splashed down southwest of San Diego ↗ on the 11th.

On 8 April, the first satellites of the Celeste (LEO-PNT) ↗ constellation began broadcasting navigation signals for the first time.

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|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Featured Content'''</span>
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The image "STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery after undocking ↗" was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on 30 April. It was nominated by {{Noping|Moonreach}}.
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|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article of the month'''</span>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Gallaudet Eleven ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Gallaudet Eleven|references=no|hat=no}}
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Image of the month'''</span>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Clayton Anderson under weightlessness'''</div>
200px|right ↗
A demonstration of weightlessness ↗ by astronaut Clayton Anderson ↗, particularly its effect on liquids. The water's surface tension ↗ keeps it in a sphere, which here results in the light reflecting off of Anderson being refracted in such a way that it appears upside-down. It is only upside-down relative to Anderson, as there is no "up" or "down" in a weightless environment beyond convention.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

{{Noping|DevonHalDraedle}} (10 April)

{{Noping|SpooklesMan}} (11 April)

{{Noping|Kr0ndstat}} (15 April)

{{Noping|JerryAkpan5001}} (15 April)

{{Noping|ParanormalCaramel}} (16 April)

{{Noping|Nicknme}} (21 April)

{{Noping|AZenit3}} (30 April)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 225.
Total number of members: 454.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''April Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list .</span>
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#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|Argentina}}{{Flagicon|South Korea}}{{Flagicon|Saudi Arabia}}{{Flagicon|Germany}} Space Launch System ↗ Block 1 — ''various, including'' Artemis II ↗ (1 Apr. at 22:35:12) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|PRC}} Tianlong-3 ↗ — ''unknown'' (3 Apr. at 04:17:00) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} New Glenn ↗ — BlueBird 7 ↗ (19 Apr. at 11:25:00) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — USA-585 ↗ (21 Apr. 06:53:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from 30 April 2026.</span>
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{| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
|-
! colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" | Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
|-
! rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" | '''Quality'''
! colspan="7" | '''Importance'''
|-
! {{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}}
! {{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|-
| {{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 6
|| 30
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''59'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 124
||
|| '''124'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 1
||
||
|| '''4'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 12
|| 26
|| 34
|| 58
||
|| 3
|| '''133'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 78
|| 196
|| 242
||
|| 8
|| '''540'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 44
|| 170
|| 613
|| 894
|| 1
|| 78
|| ''' 1,800'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 133
|| 1,023
|| 2,727
||
|| 510
|| ''' 4,408'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 193
|| 1,973
||
|| 323
|| '''2,494'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 111
|| 244
|| 1
|| 48
|| '''534'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,280
||
|| '''1,280'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 277
||
|| '''277'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 108
||
|| '''108'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 42
|| 145
|| 1,259
||
|| '''1,448'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 533
||
|| ''' 533'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
|| 1
|| 45
||
|| '''46'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 566
|| 2,233
|| 6,297
|| 3,731
|| 970
|| '''13,902'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 1
||
|| 7
||
|| 110
|| '''118'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''567'''
|| '''2,233'''
|| '''6,304'''
|| '''3,731'''
|| '''1,080'''
|| '''14,020'''
|-
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since March 2026, there are one fewer Mid-importance, 28 more Low-importance, four more NA-importance, and 27 more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 58 new articles. There are also one fewer GA-class, five more B-class, 33 more C-class, two fewer Start-class, 23 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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Discuss & propose changes to ''The Downlink'' at '''The Downlink talk ↗''' page. To unsubscribe from the newsletter remove your name from the '''Mailing list ↗'''.<br/>
Newsletter contributors: {{Noping|Ships&Space}}
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:22, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 5

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!rowspan=2 width=100px|100px ↗
!rowspan=2 style="padding:0px 2em; font-size:42px; text-align:left;"|The Downlink
|The <span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span> ↗ Newsletter
|-
| 2026 <br/> 1 — 31 May
|}
{|{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|WikiProject Spaceflight||class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"}} border=1 width=100% style="border:2px solid black; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#FFFAF0; color: black;"
!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 4 — Issue 5
|-
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"|Spaceflight Project ↗{{•}}Project discussion ↗{{•}}Members ↗{{•}}Assessment ↗{{•}}Open tasks ↗{{•}}Popular pages ↗{{•}}The Downlink ↗
|-
|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''In the News'''</span>
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On 15 May, NASA ↗'s ''Psyche ↗'' flew {{Convert|4500|km|mi}} above the surface of Mars ↗ while performing a gravity assist ↗.

SMILE ↗ was launched on 19 May. A joint mission of ESA ↗ and CAS ↗, SMILE aims to study the effects of solar wind ↗ on Earth's magnetosphere ↗.

On 22 May, Starship flight test 12 ↗ was performed. This was the first use of both the Block 3 ↗ and Starbase's second launch pad ↗.

The ICARUS Initiative ↗ launched the first of its ICARUS 2.0 constellation's satellites on 3 May. The satellite, named RAVEN, was constructed by EnduroSat ↗, and is built to track animal migration ↗s.

|-
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article of the month'''</span>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''''Polyus'' (spacecraft) ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Polyus (spacecraft)|references=no|hat=no|files=2}}
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Image of the month'''</span>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Integrated Truss Structure of the ISS'''</div>
250px|right ↗
This graphic is an exploded view ↗ of the Integrated Truss Structure ↗, the long segment that has the ISS' distinctive solar panels. The first piece, Z1, was installed in October 2000, while the most recent addition, S6, being installed in October 2007; the current configuration of the ITS dates to June 2023. In addition to providing electricity via the solar panels, the ITS is the location of energy storage, with battery assemblies on the P4/6 and S4/6 segments. These each consist of 24 lithium-ion batteries ↗, for a total of 96 batteries.
|-
|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

{{Noping|ThePrehistoricBlob12345}} (19 May)

{{Noping|RockyKT}} (21 May)

{{Noping|A Random Hylian}} (21 May)

{{Noping|Analemnas}} (26 May)

{{Noping|The Boat Boy}} (31 May)

{{Noping|Doeze}} (31 May)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 230.
Total number of members: 460.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''May Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here ↗.</span>
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# {{Flagicon|PRC}} Zhuque-2E ↗ — ''Dingzhihua Shiyan Zaihe'' (14 May at 03:00:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
# {{Flagicon|ITA}}{{Flagicon|China}}{{Flagicon|EU}} Vega C ↗ — SMILE ↗
|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from 31 May 2026.</span>
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{| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
|-
! colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" | Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
|-
! rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" | '''Quality'''
! colspan="7" | '''Importance'''
|-
! {{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}}
! {{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|-
| {{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 6
|| 30
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''59'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 124
||
|| '''124'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 1
||
||
|| '''4'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 12
|| 26
|| 34
|| 58
||
|| 3
|| '''133'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 17
|| 78
|| 197
|| 245
||
|| 8
|| '''545'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 42
|| 171
|| 617
|| 904
|| 1
|| 76
|| '''1,811'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 133
|| 1,025
|| 2,731
||
|| 510
|| '''4,414'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 192
|| 1,975
||
|| 340
|| '''2,512'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 117
|| 112
|| 244
|| 1
|| 50
|| '''535'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,281
||
|| '''1,281'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 276
||
|| '''276'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 108
||
|| '''108'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 43
|| 144
|| 1,258
||
|| '''1,447'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 534
||
|| '''534'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
|| 1
|| 47
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 104
|| 565
|| 2,241
|| 6,315
|| 3,733
|| 987
|| '''13,945'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 6
||
|| 113
|| '''119'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''104'''
|| '''565'''
|| '''2,241'''
|| '''6,321'''
|| '''3,733'''
|| '''1,100'''
|| ''' 14,064'''
|-
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since April 2026, there are one fewer Top-importance, two fewer High-importance, eight more Mid-importance, 17 more Low-importance, two more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 44 new articles. There are also five more B-class, eleven more C-class, six more Start-class, 18 more Stub-class articles, and one more list.
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