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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 1

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• NASA called off a planned spacewalk of SpaceX Crew-11 ↗ on 8 January, and later cancelled the mission outright, after one of the crewmembers, Mike Fincke ↗, was reported to have a medical complication. This was the first time that this occurred in US history.


• On 11 January, the Pandora spacecraft ↗ was successfully launched. Pandora is designed to study the atmospheres of transiting exoplanet ↗s, with the intention of identifying targets for future observation.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer|references=no|hat=no|templates=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;">'''Wernher von Braun with the Rocketdyne F-1 engines'''</div>
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Pictured here are two titans of spaceflight history: Dr. Wernher von Braun ↗, one of the main figures of the early American space program and designer of both the Saturn V ↗ and V-2 ↗ rockets, and five (four visible) Rocketdyne F-1 ↗ engines, used on the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle ↗. Dr. von Braun's career is noted for a great number of achievements in human spaceflight, including the Apollo mission ↗ which successfully put human beings on the moon; nevertheless, it is burdened with the shadow of his activities in the Nazi Party ↗, especially concerning his work on the V-2.

The engines behind him, in addition to being immense, have the honor of being the only engines used to get humans to the moon, as of the time of writing. Developed in the late 1950s, the {{Convert|8400|kg|lb}} engines are still the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid-propellant rocket ↗ ever made.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{Noping|GiftedIceCream}} (24 January)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 219. Total number of members: 446.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''January Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC. See a complete list here ↗.</span>
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#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|Canada}}{{Flagicon|UK}}{{Flagicon|Finland}}{{Flagicon|Germany}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — ''various, including Pandora ↗'' (11 Jan. at 13:44:50) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|India}}{{Flagicon|Thailand}}{{Flagicon|Spain}} PSLV-DL ↗ — ''various, including EOS-N1 ↗ and THEOS-2A ↗'' (12 Jan. at 04:48:30) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|PRC}} Ceres-2 ↗ — ''various'' (17 Jan. at 04:05) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})

|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from 31 January 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
|| 59
||
|| 2
|| '''133'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 77
|| 196
|| 236
||
|| 6
|| '''531'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 44
|| 170
|| 607
|| 860
|| 1
|| 58
|| '''1,740'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 134
|| 1,026
|| 2,701
||
|| 499
|| '''4,375'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 195
|| 1,986
||
|| 296
|| '''2,482'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 110
|| 239
|| 1
|| 44
|| '''524'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,282
||
|| '''1,282'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 275
||
|| '''275'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 109
||
|| '''109'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 43
|| 143
|| 1,248
||
|| '''1,436'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 534
||
|| '''534'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 2
||
|| '''2'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 34
||
|| '''34'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 566
|| 2,232
|| 6,237
|| 3,713
|| 905
|| '''13,758'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 1
||
|| 8
||
|| 127
|| '''136'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''567'''
|| '''2,232'''
|| '''6,245'''
|| '''3,713'''
|| '''1,032'''
|| '''13,894'''
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Since December 2025, there are two fewer top-importance, two more high-importance, two more mid-importance, 19 more low-importance, 20 more NA-importance, and 31 more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 72 new articles. There are also three more GA-class, three more B-class, twelve more C-class, eleven more Start-class, and eleven more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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See also section in Football related articles, Transclude template use

You have been asked and warned many a times to go through guidelines and policies of wikipedia. Such edits ↗ are done by you in, God knows how many article. So, I'm asking, immediately revert all these See also section, remove the transclude template as this is not how articles are written. Above that some of the links are repetitive, like for men's team, link of women's team article is already there on the top of the article. I have seen you did these even in the SAFF articles too, I will not be surpised if you did in other country and AFC related articles too. So kindly, revert all those, as this will be huge burden on editors to check and revert one by one. Ping me after doing it. Drat8sub (talk) 12:29, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

:Thank you for pointing this out. I had reviewed the See also guideline ↗ before adding the tables, and it did not discourage me from adding a table so I thought they were useful for navigation between related articles in a structured way. However, I understand your concern about it. And No, I haven't been previously warned for the see also edits.
:<code>God knows how many article.</code>
:I would like you to WP:AGF ↗, as I intented for reader's convinience. This statement of yours is dismissive and sounds acusatory which is discouraged under WP:CIVIL ↗.
:<code>I will not be surpised if you did in other country and AFC related articles too</code>
:You are mistaken and need not to be worried as I added this only for Indian national football teams, the current Indian football leagues' season and 2025, 2026 in SAFF Competitions so far.
:<code>I'm asking, immediately revert all these See also section</code>
:Wikipedia users cannot order others to edit. Violates WP:OWN ↗. I'd rather like to have a consensus on the inclusion of these tables, wherever possible as they are useful for the readers to navigate similar articles since a bulleted list would be too long. <span style="background-color: #6441a5; color: #F1F1F1; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; border-width: 2px; border-color: #b9a3e3; border-style: solid; border-radius: 8px; padding: 4px;">Footy2000♡</span> (🗨) 14:02, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
::*Did you start a conversation anywhere in any of the article talk pages, in my talk page or your talkpage before doing the reverts like this one ↗ as I've already removed them like this one. ↗? No, you did not, rather you did this in every other article of NT & you are talking about good faith. This conversation is started by me, because assumed your edit as GF edit in the first place.
::*MOS:ALSO ↗ clearly says, {{talkquote|"The section should be a '''bulleted list''', sorted either logically (for example, by subject matter), ''chronologically'', or ''alphabetically''. Consider using Columns-list or Div col if the list is lengthy. List entries should begin with a capital letter."}} What do you think, how these guidelines were made ? With or without consesnsus!! So, ofcourse it is certainly not encouraging you to put table. So, surely a case of WP:POINTY ↗ and WP:STONEWALLING ↗.
::*No body said, you are warned for see also guidelines..rather overall guidelines. One example, you still failing to add WP:EDITSUMMARY ↗. 90% don't have one. The whole thing also showing WP:COMPETENCE ↗ as you failed to understand a simple guideline and guidance.
::* Yes, God knows how many articles, you've very low rate of Edit Summary as mentioned above, how on earth anybody can understand what and why you are doing the edits. Why would any editor open each of the edits to understand what you are doing. And you not only reverted and re-added in the NT articles but also with SAFF and league related articles. It's a fair assumption to think you did with other articles too, not mistaken, a justified assumption. For e.g, here ↗.
::*For navigation, navigation template ↗ is already there, some articles already linked where it should be as mentioned above. So, surely you are not helping the cause and also not helping by saying "bulleted list is too long", as your tables are taking the same amount of spaces. And asking you to do that is not owning, or going against civil. Above that I've used "kindly". You already knew this is not the correct way, as the guidelines clearly say how to do, as someone already reverted it and asked you with guidelines, rather you are trying WP:IDHT ↗ & WP:GAMING ↗.
::*Surely, you can go for consensus, but before consensus you must maintain status quo, revert your edit, as per guidelines you should not add these as you wished to add rather bulleted list, as mentioned above, then you start a discussion at the Footy project, get consensus and edit whatever consensus is achived. Again, there is WP:NOTUNANIMITY ↗.
::I hope and expect you revert those edits from all the articles, as you want a consensus. Thank you. Drat8sub (talk) 17:21, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
:::I understand your concerns regarding bulleted lists. You are right to raise concern on my edits lacking summarises too, especially on the important ones. I intended to organise the related articles in a structured way and since the see also MOS mentions: <u>the section itself is not required</u> I made WP:BOLD ↗ edits. However, Invoking so many policies and going as far as including WP:COMPETENCE ↗ and questioning a user's competence is close to WP:NPA ↗ and better left to administrators and the community to decide. Since there is a disagreement, it may be best to discuss this at the footy wikiproject. In the meantime, I will avoid adding new tables until a consensus is reached. To let you know, I am open to working towards a solution which aligns with MOS as well makes it easier for the readers. Thanks. <span style="background-color: #6441a5; color: #F1F1F1; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; border-width: 2px; border-color: #b9a3e3; border-style: solid; border-radius: 8px; padding: 4px;">Footy2000♡</span> (🗨) 18:04, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 2

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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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• The first crewed spaceflight of 2026, SpaceX Crew-12 ↗, was launched on the 13th. Four astronauts were flown to the ISS in an atypical indirect handover that was caused by the early return of Crew-11 ↗ due to a medical emergency.


• On the 14th, the ESA ↗ lost contact with PROBA-3 ↗, a dual-probe technological demonstration ↗ mission for chronographic ↗ high-precision formation flying ↗. Specifically, the Chronograph Spacecraft lost orientation and drifted away from the Occulter.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Parking orbit ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Parking orbit|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;">'''Space Shuttle Endeavour prior to rendezvous with the International Space Station'''</div>
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Part of a series of photographs, this image depicts the Space Shuttle Endeavour ↗ prior to rendezvous ↗ and docking ↗ with the International Space Station as part of STS-130 ↗ in 2010. It was taken from the station by a member of Expedition 22 ↗ when the ISS was 183 nautical miles above the South Pacific, off the coast of southern Chile ↗. Earth is in the bottom-left; the orange part of the atmosphere is the troposphere ↗, the white band in the middle is the stratosphere ↗, and the blue section is the mesosphere ↗.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members: ''none''

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 219.
Total number of members: 446.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''February 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|RUS}}{{Flagicon|Iran}} Proton-M ↗/DM-03 ↗ — Elektro–L №5 ↗, Jam-e-Jam 1 (12 Feb. at 08:52:15) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Vulcan Centaur VC4S ↗ — GSSAP ↗-7/-8, USA-584 ↗ (12 Feb. at 09:22:00) ({{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 28 February 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
|| 59
||
|| 2
|| '''133'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||16
|| 77
|| 196
|| 238
||
|| 7
|| '''534'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 44
|| 170
|| 609
|| 868
|| 1
|| 61
|| '''1,753'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 134
|| 1,026
|| 2,713
||
|| 503
|| '''4,391'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 194
|| 1,976
||
|| 297
|| '''2,472'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 111
|| 242
|| 1
|| 44
|| '''528'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,284
||
|| '''1,284'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 274
||
|| '''274'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 109
||
|| '''109'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 43
|| 141
|| 1,248
||
|| '''1,434'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 533
||
|| '''533'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 2
||
|| '''2'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
|| 1
|| 37
||
|| '''38'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 566
|| 2,234
|| 6,251
|| 3,716
|| 914
|| '''13,786'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 1
||
|| 9
||
|| 128
|| '''138'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''567'''
|| '''2,234'''
|| '''6,260'''
|| '''3,716'''
|| '''1,042'''
|| '''13,924'''
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since January 2026, there are two more mid-importance, fifteen more low-importance, three more NA-importance, and ten more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 30 new articles. There are also three more B-class, thirteen more C-class, sixteen more Start-class, and ten fewer Stub-class articles, and four more lists.
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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 3

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!rowspan=2 style="padding:0px 2em; font-size:42px; text-align:left;"|The Downlink
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| 2026 <br/> 1 &#8212; 31 March
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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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• On 22 March, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 ↗ was used for the first time since being damaged in November 2025. Progress MS-33 ↗, a resupply mission to the ISS, was launched from the site following substantial repairs.


• ESA ↗ launched the first two satellites in the Celeste constellation ↗ on 28 March. They were launched aboard a Electron launch vehicle ↗, marking the first time ESA has used the vehicle.


• China's Qingzhou ↗ cargo spacecraft was tested for the first time on 30 March. Launched on the maiden flight of the Kinetica 2 ↗, the prototype performed a number of tests in coordination with another satellite.

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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;">'''OTV-2 ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|OTV-2|references=no|hat=no|bold=yes}}
|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;">'''STS-1'''</div>
200px|right ↗
{{Excerpt|STS-1|references=0|files=0|bold=no}}
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members: {{Noping|Swedmark111}} (26 March)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 220.
Total number of members: 447.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''March 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|USA}} Alpha Block 1 ↗ — ICOR SV (11 Mar. at 00:50:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ — Progress MS-33 ↗ (22 Mar. at 11:59:51) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|EU}} Rocket Lab Electron ↗ — Celeste ↗ IOD-1/-2 (28 Mar. at 09:14:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|PRC}} Kinetica 2 ↗ — New March 01/02, TS 01 (30 Mar. at 11:00:00) ({{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 31 March 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
|| 59
||
|| 3
|| '''134'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 77
|| 196
|| 239
||
|| 7
|| '''535'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 44
|| 170
|| 609
|| 875
|| 1
|| 68
|| '''1,767'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 134
|| 1,026
|| 2,724
||
|| 511
|| '''4,410'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 194
|| 1,974
||
|| 298
|| '''2,471'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 111
|| 244
|| 1
|| 45
|| '''531'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,285
||
|| '''1,285'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 274
||
|| '''274'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 109
||
|| '''109'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 43
|| 142
|| 1,250
||
|| '''1,437'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 533
||
|| '''533'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 2
||
|| '''2'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 45
||
|| '''45'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 566
|| 2,234
|| 6,270
|| 3,727
|| 932
|| '''13,834'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 1
||
|| 6
||
|| 121
|| '''128'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''567'''
|| '''2,234'''
|| '''6,276'''
|| '''3,727'''
|| '''1,053'''
|| '''13,962'''
|-
|}
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Since February 2026, there are 16 more Low-importance, eleven more NA-importance, and eleven more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 38 new articles. There are also one more GA-class, one more B-class, 14 more C-class, 19 more Start-class, one fewer Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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Unnecessary redirect

Can you kindly explain why do you need to create the 2026–27 Indian Football League ↗ redirect, when there is absolutely no need of making one? Kindly, delete the redirect so that in future it's easier for creating the article. Drat8sub (talk) 17:18, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

:There currently aren't enough sources to necessitate an article for the upcoming IFL season. Also WP:Crystal ↗. 2025–26 I-League 2 ↗ page has promoted teams but they require linking to the 2026–27 IFL article, hence a redirect. The 2026–27 IFL page can always be created by clicking on the original article link that comes above the redirected page. Also, as mentioned earlier, wikipedia users cannot order others to edit, Violates WP:OWN ↗. <span style="background-color: #6441a5; color: #F1F1F1; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; border-width: 2px; border-color: #b9a3e3; border-style: solid; border-radius: 8px; padding: 4px;">Footy2000♡</span> (🗨) 17:28, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
::You did not answer yet, why do you need to create the redirect, since there was no deletion of page or creation. Secondly, whether there is enough source or not, or when the article will be created, who can create, that is not you duty to tell, neither you should say that. Kindly, don't gaslight by showing...wp:own guidelines, that's certainly what you tried to do with that redirect. Someone who want to create the article, seeing the link in the infobox will not create one, thinking it's already created. Last time also you are replying in similar pattern without addressing the issue. Finally, nobody is ordering you, requested you to delete through CSD G7 criteria, since there is absolutely no need of that redirect, it is not serving any purpose. I hope you will do that, it is a request. Drat8sub (talk) 19:10, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 4

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| 2026 <br/> 1 &#8212; 30 April
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 4 &#8212; 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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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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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 5

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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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• 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.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''''Polyus'' (spacecraft) ↗'''</div>
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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.
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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 ↗
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{| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
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! colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" | Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
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! rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" | '''Quality'''
! colspan="7" | '''Importance'''
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! {{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}}
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! 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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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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