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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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• The Soyuz MS-17 ↗ launched on 14 October 2020, 05:45:04 and docked after a "two-orbit rendezvous flight plan" to the ISS ↗ only three hours later at 08:48:47 UTC.


• The OSIRIS-REx ↗ probe successfully makes brief touchdown and collects a sample from the asteroid Bennu ↗ at 22:13 UTC on 20 October 2020.


• Expedition 63 ↗ ended on 21 October 2020, 23:32 UTC after 187 days, 21 hours and 38 minutes duration.


• Expedition 64 ↗ began on 21 October 2020, 23:32:00 UTC. With ISS commander: Sergey Ryzhikov ↗, and astronauts: Kathleen Rubins ↗ & Sergey Kud-Sverchkov ↗.


• Soyuz MS-16 ↗ landed on 22 October 2020, 02:54:12 UTC after 195 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in space.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''John Glenn ↗'''</div>
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third person and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.
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Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{noping|F.Alexsandr}} (Joined on the 8^th October)


• {{noping|Dndlp}} (Joined on the 18^th October)


• {{noping|Path slopu}} (Joined on the 23^rd October)


• {{noping|Wehwalt}} (Joined on the 24^th October)


• {{noping|Whoop whoop pull up}} (Joined on the 24^th October)


• {{noping|Josecurioso}} (Joined on the 29^th October)

Number of active members: 91.<br/>
Total number of members: 295.

|rowspan=3 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span> <span style="font-size:12px;">&mdash; This data reflects values from the 31 October 2020</span>
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|| 7 ↗
|| 16 ↗
|| 2 ↗
|| 7 ↗
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|| '''32 ↗'''
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|| 4 ↗
|| 4 ↗
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|| '''8 ↗'''
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|| 92 ↗
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|| '''92 ↗'''
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| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11 ↗
|| 22 ↗
|| 36 ↗
|| 47 ↗
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|| '''116 ↗'''
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| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1 ↗
|| 46 ↗
|| 37 ↗
|| 46 ↗
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|| '''130 ↗'''
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| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 55 ↗
|| 157 ↗
|| 513 ↗
|| 446 ↗
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|| 5 ↗
|| '''1,176 ↗'''
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| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 37 ↗
|| 159 ↗
|| 1,121 ↗
|| 2,186 ↗
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|| 367 ↗
|| '''3,870 ↗'''
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| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 8 ↗
|| 249 ↗
|| 2,105 ↗
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|| 223 ↗
|| '''2,585 ↗'''
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| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 14 ↗
|| 128 ↗
|| 76 ↗
|| 203 ↗
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|| '''421 ↗'''
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|| 1,020 ↗
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|| '''1,020 ↗'''
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|| 46 ↗
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|| '''46 ↗'''
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|| 194 ↗
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|| '''194 ↗'''
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|| 54 ↗
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|| '''54 ↗'''
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| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 67 ↗
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|| '''67 ↗'''
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|| 1,132 ↗
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|| '''1,132 ↗'''
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| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 485 ↗
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|| '''485 ↗'''
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
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|| 25 ↗
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|| '''25 ↗'''
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| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 125 ↗
|| 536 ↗
|| 2,038 ↗
|| 5,044 ↗
|| 3,121 ↗
|| 595 ↗
|| '''11,459 ↗'''
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|| 54 ↗
|| '''54 ↗'''
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''125 ↗'''
|| '''536 ↗'''
|| '''2,038 ↗'''
|| '''5,044 ↗'''
|| '''3,121 ↗'''
|| '''649 ↗'''
|| '''11,513 ↗'''
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# Antares ↗ - NG-14 ↗ (October 2^nd at 01:16:14)
# Falcon 9 ↗ - Starlink ↗ V1.0-L12 (October 6^th at 11:29:34)
# Long March 3B ↗ - Gaofen 13 (October 11^th at 16:57)
# Soyuz ↗ - ISS 63S ↗ (October 14^th at 05:45:04)
# Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L13 (October 18^th at 12:25:57)
# Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L14 (October 22^nd at 15:31:34)
# Soyuz - GLONASS-K ↗ (October 25^th at 19:08:42)
# Long March 2C ↗ - Yaogan 30-07 (October 26^th at 15:19)
# Electron ↗ - ''In Focus'' (October 28^th at 21:21:27)
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''November Launches'''</span> <span style="font-size:12px;">&mdash; Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• Atlas V ↗ - NROL-101


• Falcon 9 - GPS 3 ↗ SV04


• PSLV ↗ - RISAT ↗ 2BR2


• Long March 6 ↗ - ÑuSat ↗ 9-18


• Delta IV Heavy ↗ - NROL ↗-44


• Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02


• Falcon 9 - NROL-108


• Falcon 9 - SXM 7


• Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich ↗


• Vega ↗ - SEOSat-Ingenio ↗ & TARANIS ↗


• Falcon 9 - Crew-1 ↗


• Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15


• Electron - STP ↗-27RM


• LauncherOne ↗ - ELaNa ↗-20


• Angara A5 ↗ - Test Flight


• Falcon 9 - Türksat 5A ↗


• Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2

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• The ISS ↗ has been continuously occupied for the last 20 years! Expedition 1 ↗ arrived on 2 November 2000 with the first long-term residents. That’s longer then ↗ Wikipedia has existed.


• Crew-1 ↗ successfully launched from LC-39A ↗ on 16^th November 2020, at 00:11:15 (UTC). Later, on 17^th November 2020, 04:00 (UTC) Michael S. Hopkins ↗, Victor J. Glover ↗, Soichi Noguchi ↗ and Shannon Walker ↗ joined Expedition 64 ↗ and the crew of MS-17 ↗ on the ISS.


• Arianespace ↗ had a launch failure after liftoff of its Vega ↗ rocket on the 17^th November. Two satellites were lost due to an integration error of the fourth stage.

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• {{noping|Springfield2020}} (Joined on the 2^nd November)


• {{noping|Helwr}} (Joined on the 12^th November)


• {{noping|Hportfacts5}} (Joined on the 28^th November)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 94.
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#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ - GPS 3 SV04 (5^th at 23:24:23) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 6 ↗ - ÑuSat 9-18 (6^th at 3:19) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Ceres-1 ↗ - Tianqi-11 (7^th at 7:12) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|India}} PSLV-DL ↗ - EOS 1 (7^th at 9:41 {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 3B ↗ - Tiantong 1-02 (12^th at 15:59:04) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Atlas 5 ↗ - NROL-101 (13^th at 22:32) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} {{Space icon|c}} Falcon 9 - Crew-1 ↗ (16^th at 00:27:17) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|France}} Vega ↗ - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17^th at 01:52:20) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Electron ↗ - "Return to Sender" (20^th at 01:44) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21^st at 17:71:08) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 5 ↗ - Chang’e 5 (23^rd at 20:30:12) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25^th at 02:13:12) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Japan}} H-IIA ↗ - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29^th at 7:25) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''December Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: '''here ↗'''.</span>
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• Soyuz ↗ - Falcon Eye 2


• Soyuz ↗ - Gonets M


• Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21


• Long March 11 ↗ - GECAM


• Falcon 9 - Turksat 5A


• Soyuz - Progress 77P


• Angara A5 ↗ - Test Flight


• Electron - The Owl's Night Begins


• PSLV-XL - CMS 1


• Soyuz - OneWeb 4


• LauncherOne ↗ - ELaNa 20


• Long March 8 ↗ - XJY 7


• Soyuz - CSO 2


• Delta 4 Heavy ↗ - NROL-44


• Delta IV Heavy - NROL-82


• Falcon 9 - NROL-108


• Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16


• Falcon 9 - SXM 7


• SSLV - Demonstration Launch

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|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 30 November 2020</span>
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{|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right; margin:auto"
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!colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle"|Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
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!{{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
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!{{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
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!style="text-align: center;"|'''Total'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|7
|16
|2
|7||||
|'''32'''
|-
|{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||
|4
|4||||
|'''8'''
|-
|{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|94||
|'''94'''
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|{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|11
|23
|36
|47||||
|'''117'''
|-
|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|1
|46
|38
|46||||
|'''131'''
|-
|{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|55
|160
|517
|464||
|5
|'''1,201'''
|-
|{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|37
|158
|1,125
|2,204||
|370
|'''3,894'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|8
|247
|2,110||
|225
|'''2,590'''
|-
|{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|14
|128
|77
|207||||
|'''426'''
|-
|{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|1,023||
|'''1,023'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|46||
|'''46'''
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|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|197||
|'''197'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|55||
|'''55'''
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|{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|63||
|'''63'''
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|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|1,116||
|'''1,116'''
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|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|491||
|'''491'''
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|style="text-align: center;"|'''Other'''||||||||
|27||
|'''27'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
|125
|539
|2,046
|5,089
|3,118
|600
|'''11,517'''
|-
|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||||
|39
|'''39'''
|-
|style="text-align: center;"|'''Total'''
|'''125'''
|'''539'''
|'''2,046'''
|'''5,089'''
|'''3,118'''
|'''639'''
|'''11,556'''
|}
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since October, 43 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There has been 2 more images which have reached FM class, both GA and B classes have 1 more article. 5 more lists have been added to the project. While 25 articles have been improved to C class as well as 24 articles reaching start class and 5 new articles added to stub class.
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The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 3

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|The <span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span> ↗ Newsletter
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|1 December 2020 &mdash; 31 December 2020
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!colspan=2 bgcolor=black style="color:white; padding:5px;"|Volume 2 &mdash; Issue 3
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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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• The Chang’e 5 lander landed on the moon on December 1^st, and started to gather lunar samples.


• The Chang’e 5 ascent module launched from the moons surface on December 3^rd and later docked with the service module in lunar orbit.


• Hayabusa-2 has successfuly returned samples it collected from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu ↗. It landed in South Australia on 5^th December after a 6 year mission.


• SpaceX Starship ↗ SN8 completed a 12.5km flight and successfully made it back to the launch pad however was unable to slow down and hit the ground creating an impressive fireball.


• China becomes the third country to terurn samples from the moon. After the Chang'e-5 return capsule lands in Inner Mongolia at 01:59 local time on December 13^th.

|-
|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;">'''Mary Jackson ↗'''</div>
right|200px ↗
'''Mary Jackson''' (née ↗ '''Winston''', April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NACA ↗, which was succeeded by NASA ↗. She worked at Langley Research Center ↗ in Hampton, Virginia ↗, for most of her career. She started as a computer ↗ at the segregated ↗ West Area Computing division ↗ in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer.
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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250px|right ↗
With China becoming the third country to return moon samples back to earth, this is an image of the Apollo 11 ↗ Lunar Lander ↗ being worked on by Buzz Aldrin ↗. This mission was the first time moon samples were brought back to earth. This image was taken over 51 years ago on July 21, 1969.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{noping|ExoEditor}} (Joined on the 14^th December)


• {{noping|XFalcon2004x}} (Joined on the 16^th December)


• {{noping|PythosIsAwesome}} (Joined on the 17^th December)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 97.
Total number of members: 301.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''December Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC.</span>
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#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz ↗ - Falcon Eye 2 (2^nd at 01:33:28) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz ↗ - Gonets-M ↗ (3^rd at 01:14:36) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} {{Space icon|m}} Chang'e 5 ↗ (3^rd at 15:10) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 3B ↗ - Gaofen 14 (6^th at 03:58) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ - SpaceX CRS 21 (6^th at 15:17:08) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 11 ↗ - GECAM (9^th at 20:14) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Delta 4 Heavy ↗ - NROL 44 (11^th at 1:09) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - SXM 7 (13^th at 17:20) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Angara A5 ↗ - Test Flight (14^th at 5:50:00) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Electron ↗ - The Owl's Night Begins (15^th at 10:09:27) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Rocket 3 ↗ - Test Flight (15^th at 20:55) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{flagicon|India}} PSLV-XL ↗ - CMS1 (17^th at 10:11) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz - OneWeb 4 (18^th at 12:26:26) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - NROL-108 (19^th at 14:00) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 8 ↗ - XJY 7 (22^nd at 04:37:37) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C ↗ - Yaogan 33 (27^th at 15:$4) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz ↗ - CSO 2 (29^th at 16:42:07) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''January Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• Falcon 9 - Türksat 5A


• Falcon 9 - Transporter 1


• LauncherOne ↗ - ELaNa 20


• Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16


• Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L17


• Firefly Alpha ↗ - Dream 1


• Hyperbola-1 ↗ - (Second Flight)


• Jielong 1 ↗ - Hainan-1

|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 31 December 2020</span>
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{|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right; margin:auto"
|-
!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_articles}}
!{{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|7
|17
|4
|7
||||
|'''35'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|7
|17
|4
|7
||||
|'''35'''
|-
|{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||
|4
|4
||||
|'''8'''
|-
|{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||
|96
|
|'''96'''
|-
|{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|11
|22
|37
|49
||||
|'''119'''
|-
|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|1
|47
|37
|44
||||
|'''129'''
|-
|{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|55
|159
|518
|475
|
|7
|'''1,214'''
|-
|{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|38
|158
|1,124
|2,207
|
|369
|'''3,896'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|
|8
|248
|2,175
|
|225
|'''2,656'''
|-
|{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|14
|130
|78
|208
||||
|'''430'''
|-
|{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||
|1,027
|
|'''1,027'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||
|47
|
|'''47'''
|-
|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||
|196
|
|'''196'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||
|55
|
|'''55'''
|-
|{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||
|57
|
|'''57'''
|-
|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
||
|1,121
|
|'''1,121'''
|-
|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||
|492
|
|'''492'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" |'''Other'''
||||||||
|27
|1
|'''28'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
|126
|541
|2,050
|5,169
|3,124
|602
|'''11,612'''
|-
|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||
|43
|'''43'''
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |'''Total'''
|'''126'''
|'''541'''
|'''2,050'''
|'''5,169'''
|'''3,124'''
|'''645'''
|'''11,655'''
|}

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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since November, 99 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 new file, with 2 more files reaching FM class. There 3 more articles have reached FA class, with an increase of 2 GA class articles. 4 more lists have been added to the project. While 13 articles have been improved to C class as well as 2 articles reaching start class and 66 new articles added to stub class.
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The Downlink – January 2021

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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
|-
|1 January 2021 &mdash; 31 January 2021
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!colspan=2 bgcolor=black style="color:white; padding:5px;"|Volume 2 &mdash; 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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• The NASA ↗ Space Launch System ↗ test-fire of the core stage on 16 January triggered a shutdown due to an hydraulic system issue. The test which was intended to last eight minutes, lasted just over one minute.


• Space X ↗ sets a new world record for the number of satellites launched. 143 small satellites were launched on a Falcon 9 on 24 January.

|-
|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;">'''Pete Conrad ↗'''</div>
right|180px ↗
'''Charles''' "'''Pete'''" '''Conrad Jr.''' (June 2, 1930&nbsp;– July 8, 1999) was an American NASA ↗ astronaut ↗, aeronautical engineer ↗, naval officer ↗ and aviator ↗, test pilot ↗, and commanded the Apollo 12 ↗ space mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon ↗. Conrad was selected in NASA's second astronaut class ↗ in 1962.
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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right|200px ↗

This is an image of Dr. von Braun ↗ standing infront of the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle ↗ on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center ↗ in Huntsville, Alabama ↗. The engines measured 19-feet tall by 12.5-feet at the nozzle exit and burned 15 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene each second to produce 7,500,000 pounds of thrust.
|-
|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{noping|Tell284}} (Joined on the 10^th January)


• {{noping|N828335}} (Joined on the 12^th January)


• {{noping|Alpacaaviator}} (Joined on the 13^th January)


• {{noping|BugWarp}} (Joined on the 18^th January)


• {{noping|Jogesh 69}} (Joined on the 23^rd January)


• {{noping|giolibreak}} (Joined on the 24^th January)


• {{noping|Jared.h.wood}} (Joined on the 25^th January)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 98.
Total number of members: 308.}}
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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.</span>
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#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Türksat 5A ↗ (8^th at 02:15) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} LauncherOne ↗ – ELaNa ↗-20 (17^th at 19:38:51) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 3B/E ↗ – Tiantong 1-03 ↗ (19^th at 16:25) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|NZ}} Electron (rocket) ↗ – Another One Leaves the Crust {{nobreak|(20^th at 07:26) {{Space icon|s}}}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink ↗ V1.0-L16 (20^th at 13:02) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Transporter 1 (24^th at 13:02) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C ↗ – Yaogan ↗ 31-02 (29^th at 04:47) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''February Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17


• Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – Lotos-S


• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18


• Long March 3B/E – Tianhui-3


• Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P


• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19


• PSLV ↗ – Amazônia 1


• Antares ↗ – NG 15

|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 31 January 2021</span>
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{|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right; margin:auto"
|-
!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_articles}}
!{{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!style="text-align: center;"|'''Total'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|7
|17
|4
|7
|||||'''35'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||4
|4
|||||'''8'''
|-
|{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||||96
|
|'''96'''
|-
|{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|11
|22
|37
|51
|||||'''121'''
|-
|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|1
|48
|37
|43
|||||'''129'''
|-
|{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|55
|159
|523
|483
|
|7
|'''1,227'''
|-
|{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|38
|159
|1,122
|2,203
|
|371
|'''3,893'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||7
|245
|2,175
|
|225
|'''2,652'''
|-
|{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|14
|131
|78
|209
|||||'''432'''
|-
|{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||||1,029
|
|'''1,029'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||||47
|
|'''47'''
|-
|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||||197
|
|'''197'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||||55
|
|'''55'''
|-
|{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||||57
|
|'''57'''
|-
|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||||1,120
|
|'''1,120'''
|-
|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||||493
|
|'''493'''
|-
|style="text-align: center;"|'''Other'''
||||||||
|32
|
|'''32'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
|126
|543
|2,050
|5,175
|3,132
|603
|'''11,629'''
|-
|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
|||||||1
|
|48
|'''49'''
|-
|style="text-align: center;"|'''Total'''
|'''126'''
|'''543'''
|'''2,050'''
|'''5,176'''
|'''3,132'''
|'''651'''
|'''11,678'''
|}
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since December, 23 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. Including 1 new file. Unfortunately there are 8 less GA class articles however there was an incrase of 13 articles at C class.
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The Downlink – March 2021

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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 Hope orbiter ↗ reached mars on 9 February 2021. Seven months after its launch on 19 July 2020.


• Confirmation of the Perseverance ↗ rover successfully landing on Mars was recieved at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. With the '''first photo ↗''' from the same day.

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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;">'''Mars Pathfinder ↗'''</div>
200px|right ↗
The Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, and a lightweight wheeled robotic Mars rover named ''Sojourner'', which became the first rover to land and operate on Mars.
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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400px|center ↗
The first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, on Perseverance ↗.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{noping|Acronymical}} (Joined on the 11^th February)


• {{noping|RedemptionVision}} (Joined on the 12^th February)


• {{noping|Yitzilitt}} (Joined on the 12^th February)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 100.
Total number of members: 313.}}
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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.</span>
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#{{flagicon|China}} Hyperbola-1 ↗ – Multi-payload (1^st at 08:15) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – Lotos S1 (2^st at 20:45:28) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Starlink V1.0-L18 (4^st at 06:19) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 3B/E ↗ – TJS 6 (4^st at 15:36) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ – Progress 77P ↗ (15^st at 04:45:05) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 (16^st at 03:59:37) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Antares 230+ ↗ – NG-15 ↗ (20^st at 17:36:50) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C ↗ – Yaogan 31 ↗ (24^st at 02:22) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|India}} PSLV – Amazônia-1 ↗ (28^st at 04:53) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1b – Arktika-M 1 (28^st at 06:55:01) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''March Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17


• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20


• Long March 7A ↗ – Yanzheng 6


• Firefly Alpha ↗ – DREAM 1


• Electron ↗ – ''They Go Up So Fast''


• Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500-1


• Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 5


• Jielong 1 ↗ – Hainan 1


• LauncherOne ↗ – STP-27VP


• Long March 4C ↗ – Gaofen-12

|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 28 February 2021</span>
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{|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align:right; margin:auto"
!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_articles}}
!{{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||7||17||4||7||||||'''35'''
|-
|{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||4||4||||||'''8'''
|-
|{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||97||||'''97'''
|-
|{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||11||22||36||52||||||'''121'''
|-
|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||1 ↗
||48 ↗
||37 ↗
||43 ↗
||
||
||'''129 ↗'''
|-
|{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||55
||160
||527
||489
||
||7
||'''1,238'''
|-
|{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||38||158||1,121||2,208||||372||'''3,897]'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||7||245||2,178||||225||'''2,655'''
|-
|{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||14||131||79||211||||||'''435'''
|-
|{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||1,033||||'''1,033'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||48||||'''48'''
|-
|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||198||||'''198'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||55||||'''55'''
|-
|{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||57||||'''57'''
|-
|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||1||1,122||||'''1,123'''
|-
|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||493||||'''493'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Other'''
||||||||||39||||'''39'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
||126||543||2,053||5,193||3,148||604||'''11,667'''
|-
|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||1||||54||'''55'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
||'''126'''||'''543'''||'''2,053'''||'''5,194'''||'''3,148'''||'''658'''||'''11,722'''
|}
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since January, 44 new pages have been added to Spaceflight and 1 file has become featured. There are 2 new files as well as 1 more C class, 4 more start class and 3 more stub class articles, with an additional 3 list articles.
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The Downlink – April 2021

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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 March 7 the Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble Space Telescope ↗ entered ''safe mode'' after a software error was detected. And took days until the camera was fully active again. read more ↗


• The Space Launch System ↗ completed a full-duration (8 minutes and 20 seconds) static fire of the core stage on March 18, after an earler test in January failed to complete the test.

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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Featured Content'''''</span>
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• The Apollo 12 ↗ article was promoted to a ''Featured Article'' on March 27, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Wehwalt}} who is a significant contributor to the article.

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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;">'''Hubble Space Telescope ↗'''</div>
200px|right ↗
The '''Hubble Space Telescope''' was launched into low Earth orbit ↗ in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope ↗, but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy ↗. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble ↗ and is one of NASA's Great Observatories ↗.
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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300px|right ↗
Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee ↗ is shown at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{noping|Bop34}} (Joined on the 2^nd March)


• {{noping|Ninney}} (Rejoined on the 16^th March)


• {{noping|Askeuhd}} (Joined on the 22^nd March)


• {{noping|Ben MacTavish}} (Joined on the 27^th March)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 104.
Total number of members: 316.}}
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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.</span>
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#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Starlink V1.0-L17 (4^th at 08:24:54) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 (11^th at 08:13:29) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 7A ↗ – 7A-Y2 (11^th at 17:51:28) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C ↗ – 4C-Y42 (13^th at 02:19) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L21 (14^th at 10:01:26) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ – CAS500 1 (22^nd at 06:07:12) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|NZ}} Electron ↗ – "They Go Up So Fast" (22^nd at 22:30) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L22 (24^th at 08:28:24) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a – OneWeb ↗ 5 (25^nd at 02:47:33) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C – 4C-Y36 (30^th at 22:45) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''April Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• Falcon 9 ↗ – Starlink V1.0-L23


• Soyuz-2.1a ↗ – Soyuz MS-18 ↗


• GSLV Mk II ↗ – GISAT ↗ 1


• Vega ↗ – Pléiades Neo 1


• Falcon 9 – Crew-2 ↗


• Soyuz – OneWeb 6


• Delta IV Heavy ↗ – NROL ↗-82


• Long March 5B ↗ – Tianhe 1

|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 31 March 2021.</span>
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{|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align:right; margin:auto"
!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_articles}}
!{{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||7||18||4||7||||||'''36'''
|-
|{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||4||4||||||'''8'''
|-
|{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||97||||'''97'''
|-
|{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||11||22||36||53||||||'''122'''
|-
|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||1||48||37||45||||||'''131'''
|-
|{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||55||160||529||491||||9||'''1,244'''
|-
|{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||38||158||1,118||2,223||||374||'''3,911'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||6||245||2,185||||227||'''2,663'''
|-
|{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||14||130||79||211||||||'''434'''
|-
|{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||1,033||||'''1,033'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||48||||'''48'''
|-
|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||199||||'''199'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||55||||'''55'''
|-
|{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||57||||'''57'''
|-
|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||1||1,123||||'''1,124'''
|-
|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||493||||'''493'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Other'''
||||||||||37||||'''37'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
||126||542||2,052||5,220||3,148||610||'''11,698'''
|-
|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||||52||'''52'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
||'''126'''||'''542'''||'''2,052'''||'''5,220'''||'''3,148'''||'''662'''||'''11,750'''
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since February, 28 new pages have been added to Spaceflight and Apollo 12 ↗ has been promoted to featured article! 1 more article has reached GA-class, with 1 more file, 6 more C-class, 14 more start-class and 8 new stub class articles.
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WikiProject Rocketry ↗ ended earlier this month. I revived it on 17 April 2021. You are welcome to help with it. It is currently considered semi-active. If edits continue often, please replace it with active. You are also invited to edit Draft: Wikipedia:WikiProject SpaceX (company) ↗ and add your username to the members list.
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The Downlink – May 2021

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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 April 9 at 07:42:41 (UTC), Soyuz MS-18 ↗ successfully launched from Baikonur Site 31 ↗ with Oleg Novitsky ↗, Pyotr Dubrov ↗ and Mark T. Vande Hei ↗ arriving at the ISS ↗ 3 hours later to join Expedition 64 ↗ members.


• April 12 marks the 60^th year of human spaceflight, since Vostok 1 ↗ launched in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin ↗ onboard.


• April 12 also marks 40 years since the first space shuttle launch. ''STS-1 ↗'' spent 2 days, 6 hours in space in 1981 landing on April 14.


• On April 16, NASA selected the SpaceX Starship Human Landing System ↗ for crewed landing on the Moon.


• On April 17 at 01:34 (UTC), Soyuz MS-17 ↗ departed from the ISS and landed at Kazakh Steppe ↗ over 3 hours later ending Sergey Ryzhikov ↗, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov ↗, Kathleen Rubins ↗ mission of 184 days and 23 hours.


• Also on the 17^th, Expedition 64 ↗ on the ISS ended marking the start of Expedition 65 ↗.


• On April 19, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity ↗ completed the first powered flight using atmospheric lift on another planet.


• '''Earth Day ↗''' came around for another year, 51 years after it was first held on April 22, 1970.


• On April 23 at 09:49:02 (UTC), SpaceX Crew-2 ↗ launched at LC-39A ↗ with Shane Kimbrough ↗, K. Megan McArthur ↗, Akihiko Hoshide ↗ and Thomas Pesquet ↗ arriving at the ISS 1 day later to join Expedition 65 members.


• '''''Michael Collins ↗''''' who was the Apollo Command Module ↗ pilot, dies on April 28, 2021 aged 90.


• On April 29, China launched a ''Tianhe ↗'' station core module to low Earth orbit, starting a 2 year effort to build a space station.

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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;">'''Michael Collins ↗'''</div>
150px|right ↗
'''Michael Collins''' was an American astronaut ↗ who flew the Apollo 11 ↗ command module ''Columbia'' ↗ around the Moon ↗ in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong ↗ and Buzz Aldrin ↗, made the first crewed landing on the surface ↗. He was selected as part of NASA ↗'s third group of 14 astronauts ↗ in 1963 and flew in space twice.
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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250px|right ↗
The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "''Blue Marble ↗''" image taken onboard of the Apollo 17 ↗ spacecraft with a blue background.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{noping|Anshuman~Potu~Tipu}} (Joined on the 1^st April)


• {{noping|DrifAssault}} (Joined on the 6^th April)


• {{noping|BeachFire}} (Joined on the 13^th April)


• {{noping|Wong Wei Hao}} (Joined on the 15^th April)


• {{noping|Canopyspaceadmirer}} (Joined on the 19^th April)


• {{noping|ThePolarcub}} (Joined on the 20^th April)


• {{noping|TheColourOfFear}} (Joined on the 27^th April)


• {{noping|StarshipSLS}} (Joined on the 29^th April)

Number of active members: 112.<br>
Total number of members: 325.
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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.</span>
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#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7^th at 16:34:18) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4B ↗ – Shiyan 6-02 (8^th at 23:01) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} {{Space icon|c}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ – MS-18 ↗ (9^th at 07:42:40) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} {{Space icon|c}} Falcon 9 – Crew-2 ↗ (23^rd at 22:14:08) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – OneWeb 6 (25^th at 22:14:08) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Delta IV Heavy ↗ – NROL-82 (26^th at 20:47) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 ↗ – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27^th at 03:20) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|EU}} Vega ↗ – Pléiades Neo 3 (29^th at 01:50:00) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 ↗ – Tianhe 1 (29^th at 03:23:15) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29^rd at 03:44) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 ↗ – Yaogan 34 (27^th at 03:20) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''May Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|

• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25


• GSLV Mk.2 – GISAT 1


• Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2


• Atlas 5 – SBIRS GEO Flight 5


• Soyuz – OneWeb 7

}}
|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 30 April 2021.</span>
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{|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align:right; margin:auto"
!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_articles}}
!{{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||7||18||4||7||||||'''36'''
|-
|{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||4||4||||||'''8'''
|-
|{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||97||||'''97'''
|-
|{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||11||22||35||53||||||'''121'''
|-
|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||1||49||37||48||||||'''135'''
|-
|{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||56||160||534||489||||11||'''1,250'''
|-
|{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||37||158||1,115||2,235||||373||'''3,918'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||7||244||2,191||||226||'''2,668'''
|-
|{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||14||130||79||211||||1||'''435'''
|-
|{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||1,033||||'''1,033'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||48||||'''48'''
|-
|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||202||||'''202'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||55||||'''55'''
|-
|{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||57||||'''57'''
|-
|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||1,131||||'''1,131'''
|-
|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||495||||'''495'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Other'''
||||||||||38||||'''38'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
||126||544||2,052||5,238||3,162||611||'''11,733'''
|-
|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||||56||'''56'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
||'''126'''||'''544'''||'''2,052'''||'''5,238'''||'''3,162'''||'''667'''||'''11,789'''
|}
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since March, 39 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There is 1 less GA-class, with 3 more files, 4 more B-class, 6 more C-class, 7 more start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.
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The Downlink – June 2021

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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 1 &mdash; Issue 8
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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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• The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 ↗ had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2^nd May at 06:56:33 UTC. After they launched in November 2020 and had spent 167 days in space.


• A LongMarch 5B rocket had an uncontrolled re-entery into the atmosphere on 4^th May. With any debris being reported to have landed in the Indian Ocean.


• One of Rocket Labs Electron rockets expierienced a launch malfunction 2:30 into launch causing the mission to result in failure.


• Images have been released after the landing of Zhurong rover ↗ on Mars on 14^th May.

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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Featured Content'''''</span>
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• The Apollo 7 ↗ article was featured as ''Today's featured article ↗'' on May 16, 2021.


• The Lisa Nowak ↗ article was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Article'' status on May 6, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Neopeius}} & {{noping|Hawkeye7}}.


• The image: "Buzz Aldrin.jpg ↗" was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|TheFreeWorld}}.

|-
|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;">'''Katherine Johnson ↗'''</div>
150px|right ↗
'''Creola Katherine Johnson''' was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics ↗ as a NASA ↗ employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American ↗ women to work as a NASA scientist".
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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300px|right ↗
Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{noping|NightWolf1223}} (Joined on the 13^th May)


• {{noping|LemonSlushie}} (Joined on the 13^th May)


• {{noping|Dulliman}} (Joined on the 22^nd May)


• {{noping|The Unsinkable Molly Brown}} (Joined on the 29^th May)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 116.
Total number of members: 329.}}
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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.</span>
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#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4^th at 19:01:07) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C ↗ – Yaogan 30-08 (6^th at 18:11) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9^th at 06:42) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|NZ}} Electron ↗ – "Running Out of Toes" (15^th at 11:11) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15^th at 22:56) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Atlas 5 ↗ – SBIRS-GEO ↗ 5 (18^th at 17:37) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4B ↗ – Haiyang ↗ 2D (19^th at 04:03) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26^th at 18:59) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – OneWeb 7 (28^th at 17:38:39) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 7 ↗ – Tianzhou 2 ↗ (29^th at 12:55:29) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''June Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• Long March 3B ↗/E – Fengyun ↗ 4B


• Falcon 9 – CRS-22 ↗


• Falcon 9 – SXM 8


• Minotaur 1 ↗ – NROL-111


• Falcon 9 – GPS 3 SV05


• Atlas 5 – STP 3


• Soyuz-2.1a ↗ – Progress MS-17 ↗


• Long March 2F ↗ – Shenzhou 12


• GSLV Mk.II ↗ – GISAT 1


• Falcon 9 – Transporter 2

|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 31 May 2021.</span>
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{|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align:right; margin:auto"
!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_articles}}
!{{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||7||19||4||7||||||'''37'''
|-
|{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||4||4||||||'''8'''
|-
|{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||98||||'''98'''
|-
|{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||11||22||35||54||||||'''122'''
|-
|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||2||48||38||49||||||'''137'''
|-
|{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||55||159||536||497||1||10||'''1,258'''
|-
|{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||37||158||1,112||2,238||||372||'''3,917'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||7||245||2,190||||231||'''2,673'''
|-
|{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||14||130||79||211||||1||'''435'''
|-
|{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||1,034||||'''1,034'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||48||||'''48'''
|-
|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||202||||'''202'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||55||||'''55'''
|-
|{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||57||||'''57'''
|-
|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||1||1,133||1||'''1,135'''
|-
|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||501||||'''501'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Other'''
||||||||1||38||||'''39'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
||126||543||2,053||5,252||3,173||615||'''11,762'''
|-
|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||1||71||'''72'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
||'''126'''||'''543'''||'''2,053'''||'''5,252'''||'''3,174'''||'''686'''||'''11,834'''
|}
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since April, 45 pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class and 1 image reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, with 2 more B-class, 8 more C-class, 1 less start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.
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The Downlink – July 2021

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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 1 &mdash; Issue 9
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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;">'''''Featured Content!'''''</span>
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• The Shuttle-Centaur ↗ article was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Article'' status on June 10, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Hawkeye7}}.


• The Spaceflight before 1951 ↗ list was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured List'' status on June 21, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Neopeius}}.


• The image: "Timothy Peake, official portrait.jpg ↗" was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|RoanokeVirginia}}.


• The image: "Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg ↗" was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|TheFreeWorld}}.

|-
|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;">'''Lisa Nowak ↗'''</div>
150px|right ↗
'''Lisa Marie Nowak''' is an American aeronautical engineer ↗, and former NASA ↗ astronaut ↗ and United States Navy ↗ captain ↗. Nowak was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 ↗ in 1996. She flew in space aboard {{OV|103}} during the STS-121 ↗ mission in July 2006. In 2007, Nowak was involved in an incident that led to her dismissal from NASA and the Navy.

''This article was promoted to featured status last month!''
|rowspan=2 style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 30 June 2021.</span>
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{|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align:right; margin:auto"
!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_articles}}
!{{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
|-
|{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||7||19||5||7||||||'''38'''
|-
|{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||1||4||4||||||'''9'''
|-
|{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||100||||'''100'''
|-
|{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||11||24||34||54||||||'''123'''
|-
|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||2||48||39||52||||||'''141'''
|-
|{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||55||159||544||509||1||10||'''1,278'''
|-
|{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||37||157||1,105||2,234||||374||'''3,907'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||8||244||2,189||||231||'''2,672'''
|-
|{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||14||129||79||211||||1||'''434'''
|-
|{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||1,032||||'''1,032'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||49||||'''49'''
|-
|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||203||||'''203'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||55||||'''55'''
|-
|{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||68||||'''68'''
|-
|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||1||1||1,134||1||'''1,137'''
|-
|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||501||||'''501'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Other'''
||||||||||38||||'''38'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
||126||545||2,055||5,261||3,181||617||'''11,785'''
|-
|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||1||76||'''77'''
|-
|style="text-align:center"|'''Total'''
||'''126'''||'''545'''||'''2,055'''||'''5,261'''||'''3,182'''||'''693'''||'''11,862'''
|}
|-
|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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150px|right ↗
Offical portrait of Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. ↗ (Buzz Aldrin) who was the pilot on the Apollo 11 ↗ mission.

''This image was promoted to featured status last month!''
{{clear}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{noping|Schujack}} (Joined on the 3^rd June)


• {{noping|Frozenprakash}} (Joined on the 7^th June)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 118.
Total number of members: 331.}}
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|colspan=2 style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</span>
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Since May 28 pages ahve been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class, 1 list reached FL-class & 2 images reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, as well as 1 more file page. There are 4 more B class articles, 20 more C class articles, 10 less start class articles & 1 less stub article.

'''BOOKS are no longer supported''' by the WikiProject and are in the process of being deleted! See ''WP:BOOKSDEP ↗'' & ''here ↗'' for more.
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The Downlink – August 2021

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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 1 &#8212; Issue 10
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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 11^th July Virgin Galactic ↗ had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson ↗ onboard in SpaceShipTwo ↗ ''VSS Unity ↗''.


• On 17^th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope ↗ had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a ''"safe mode"'' since June 13.


• On 20^th July Blue Origin ↗ had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos ↗ onboard in a New Shepard ↗ capsule.


• On 26^th July The Pirs ↗ module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17^th September 2001, just under 20 years ago.


• On 29^th July The ISS ↗ was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module ↗ (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.

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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;">'''Shuttle-Centaur ↗'''</div>
150px|right ↗
'''Shuttle-Centaur''' was a version of the Centaur ↗ upper stage ↗ rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle ↗. Two variants were developed: '''Centaur G-Prime''' and '''Centaur G'''. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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200px|right ↗
This is an ''Extreme Deep Field image'' taken from the Hubble Space Telescope ↗, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{Noping|Itsfullofstars}} (Joined on the 10^th July)


• {{Noping|James Denesuk}} (Joined on the 31^st July)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 120.
Total number of members: 333.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''July Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC.</span>
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#{{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – OneWeb 8 (1^st at 12:48:33) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2D ↗ – Jilin-1 ↗ (3^rd at 02:51) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4C ↗ – Fengyun ↗ 3E (4^th at 23:28) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3C/E ↗ – Tianlian I-05 ↗ (6^th at 15:53) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 ↗ – Ningxia 1 (9^th at 11:59) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C ↗ – Yaogan ↗ 30-10 (19^th at 00:19) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|RUS}} Proton-M ↗ – Nauka ↗ (21^st at 14:58:25) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2D ↗ – Tianhui-1D (29^th at 04:01) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Electron ↗ – Monolith (29^th at 06:00) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|EU}} Ariane 5 ECA ↗ – SO-D2 ↗ & Eutelsat ↗ (30^th at 21:00) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''August Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• Atlas V N22 ↗ – Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2 ↗


• Long March 3B/E ↗ – ChinaSat 2E


• Antares 230+ ↗ – Cygnus NG-16 ↗


• Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ – Starlink ↗ 2-1


• GSLV Mk II ↗ – GISAT ↗ 1


• Vega ↗ – Pléiades Neo 4


• Long March 4C ↗ – Gaofen-3 02 ↗


• EcoRocket ↗ – ''TBA''


• Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – OneWeb 9


• Falcon 9 Block 5 – CRS-23 ↗

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|{{Category-Class}}||||||||||1,032||||'''1,032'''
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|{{Disambig-Class}}||||||||||49||||'''49'''
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|{{File-Class}}||||||||||207||||'''207'''
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|{{Template-Class}}||||||||||501||||'''501'''
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The Downlink – September 2021

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• On 12{{Sup|th}} August a GSLV Mk.2 rocket with the EOS-03 Earth observation satellite as a payload encountered a third stage failure and crashed back into the ground after reaching a maximum altitude of 140km (87 miles).


• On 20{{Sup|th}} August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station.


• On 28{{Sup|th}} August an Astra rocket had an engine failure at launch, but managed to recover and fly to the upper atmosphere before leaving its flight corridor, resulting in flight temination.

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'''Apollo 7''' was the first crewed flight in NASA ↗'s Apollo program ↗, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight ↗ by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo&nbsp;1 ↗ astronauts. The Apollo&nbsp;7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra ↗, with command module pilot ↗ Donn F. Eisele ↗ and lunar module pilot ↗ R. Walter Cunningham ↗.
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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Official portrait of Ilan Ramon ↗, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle ''Columbia''.
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New Members:

• {{Noping|Akrasia25}} (Joined on the 21{{Sup|st}} August)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 122.
Total number of members: 335.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''August Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC.</span>
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#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Hyperbola-1 ↗ – Jilin-1 ↗ (3{{Sup|rd}} at 07:39) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 ↗ – KL-Beta A/B (4{{Sup|th}} at 11:01) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3B/E ↗ – ChinaSat 2E ↗ (5{{Sup|th}} at 16:30:05) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Antares 230+ ↗ – Cygnus NG-16 ↗ (10{{Sup|th}} at 22:01:05) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|IND}} GSLV Mk II ↗ – EOS-03 (GISAT ↗-1) (12{{Sup|th}} at 00:13) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{Flagicon|EUR}} {{Flagicon|FRA}} Vega ↗ – Pléiades-Neo ↗ 4 (17{{Sup|th}} at 01:47:06) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4B ↗ – Tianhui-2 02 (18{{Sup|th}} at 22:32) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – OneWeb ↗ 9 (21{{Sup|st}} at 22:13:40) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C ↗ – RSW-01 (24{{Sup|th}} at 11:15) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3B/E ↗ – TJSW-7 (24{{Sup|th}} at 15:41) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Rocket 3 ↗ – STP ↗-27AD1 (28{{Sup|th}} at 22:35) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – CRS-23 ↗ (29{{Sup|th}} at 07:14:49) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''September Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• {{Flagicon|USA}} Firefly Alpha ↗ – DREAM


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4C ↗ – Gaofen-5 02 ↗


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3B/E ↗ – ChinaSat 9B ↗


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Ceres-1 ↗ – Fangzhou-2F (SPARK-02F)


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C ↗ – Yaogan ↗ 32-02A


• {{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – OneWeb ↗ 10


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Inspiration4 ↗


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Kuaizhou ↗ – Jilin-1 ↗ Gaofen-02F


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 7 ↗ – Tianzhou 3 ↗


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Atlas V ↗ – Landsat 9 ↗


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Kuaizhou ↗ – Jilin-1 ↗ Gaofen-02D


• {{Flagicon|USA}} {{Flagicon|NZL}} Electron ↗ – BlackSky


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Starlink ↗


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4C ↗ – Daqi-1 (Atmosphere-1)


• {{Flagicon|IND}} PSLV-XL ↗ – EOS-04 (RISAT-1A ↗)


• {{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1v ↗ – Razbeg №1 (Kosmos 2551 ↗)

|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 31 August 2021.</span>
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!colspan="8"|Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
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!rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom"|Quality
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|{{FA-Class}}||7||19||5||7||||||'''38'''
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|{{FL-Class}}||||1||4||4||||||'''9'''
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|{{FM-Class}}||||||||||102||||'''102'''
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|{{GA-Class}}||10||24||34||54||||||'''122'''
|-
|{{B-Class}}||4||48||41||53||||||'''146'''
|-
|{{C-Class}}||57||160||546||530||||||'''1,293'''
|-
|{{Start-Class}}||34||157||1,106||2,262||||374||'''3,933'''
|-
|{{Stub-Class}}||||9||244||2,197||1||234||'''2,685'''
|-
|{{List-Class}}||14||124||79||225||||1||'''443'''
|-
|{{Category-Class}}||||||||||1,033||||'''1,033'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class}}||||||||1||49||||'''50'''
|-
|{{File-Class}}||||||||||206||||'''206'''
|-
|{{Portal-Class}}||||||||||55||||'''55'''
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|{{Project-Class}}||||||||||58||||'''58'''
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|{{Redirect-Class}}||||2||||||1,140||||'''1,142'''
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|{{Template-Class}}||||||||||504||||'''504'''
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|style="text-align: center;"|'''Other'''||||||||||22||||'''22'''
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|{{Assessed-Class}}||126||544||2,059||5,333||3,170||609||'''11,841'''
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|{{Unassessed-Class}}||||||||||||53||'''53'''
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|style="text-align: center;"|'''Total'''||'''126'''||'''544'''||'''2,059'''||'''5,333'''||'''3,170'''||'''662'''||'''11,894'''
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since July: 8 pages have been added to spaceflight. There is 1 less file. There is 1 less GA class article and are 4 less B-class, 10 more C-class, 17 more start-class and 11 new stub-class articles.
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• The NASA Astronaut Group 2 ↗ article was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Article'' status on . After being nominated by {{Noping|Hawkeye7}}.


• The Apollo 16 ↗ article was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Article'' status on . After being nominated by {{Noping|Wehwalt}}.


• The Apollo 4 ↗ article was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Article'' status on . After being nominated by {{Noping|Wehwalt}}.


• The 1951 in spaceflight ↗ list was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured List'' status on 23 October 2021. After being nominated by {{Noping|Neopeius}}.


• The image: "Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama.jpg ↗" was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on 19 October 2021. After being nominated by {{Noping|Artem.G}}.

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• {{Noping|Kilawyn Punx}} (Joined on the 5{{Sup|th}} September)


• {{Noping|CactiStaccingCrane}} (Joined on the 6{{Sup|th}} September)


• {{Noping|Rainclaw7}} (Joined on the 15{{Sup|th}} September)


• {{Noping|KarenWrite}} (Joined on the 16{{Sup|th}} September)


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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''October 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|KAZ}} {{Space icon|c}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ – Soyuz MS-19 ↗ (5{{Sup|th}} at 08:55:02) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – OneWeb ↗ (14{{Sup|th}} at 09:40:10) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2D ↗ – Solar Explorer (14{{Sup|th}} at 10:51) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2F ↗ – Shenzhou 13 ↗ (15{{Sup|th}} at 16:23:56) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Atlas V ↗ – Lucy ↗ (16{{Sup|th}} at 09:34:00) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|KOR}} Nuri ↗ – ''Dummy payload ↗'' (21{{Sup|st}} at 08:00) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3B/E ↗ – Shijian-21 (24{{Sup|th}} at 01:27:03) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|EUR}} {{Flagicon|FRA}} Ariane 5 ↗ – SES-17 ↗ (24{{Sup|th}} at 02:10) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|JPN}} H-IIA ↗ – QZS-1R ↗ (26{{Sup|th}} at 02:19:37) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|CHN}} Kuaizhou ↗ – Jilin-1 ↗ Gaofen-02F (27{{Sup|th}} at 06:19) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ – MS-18 ↗ (28{{Sup|th}} at 00:00:32) {{Space icon|s}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''November Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">Launch dates can change. See a current list: here ↗.</span>
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• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – SpaceX Crew-3 ↗


• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C ↗ – Yaogan ↗ 32-02A


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Rocket 3 ↗ – STP ↗-27AD2


• {{Flagicon|JPN}} Epsilon ↗ – RAISE-2 ↗


• {{Flagicon|USA}} {{Flagicon|NZL}} Electron ↗ – BlackSky 10


• {{Flagicon|EUR}} {{Flagicon|FRA}} Vega ↗ – CERES ↗ × 3


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – CSG-2 ↗


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Atlas V ↗ – STPSat-6 ↗


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – DART ↗


• {{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ – ''Prichal ↗'' (Progress M-UM ↗)


• {{Flagicon|USA}} {{Flagicon|NZL}} Electron ↗ – BlackSky 12


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Starlink ↗ Group 2-2


• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 ↗ – Starlink ↗ Group 2-3


• {{Flagicon|USA}} RS1 ↗ – Orbital Test Range × 2


• {{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ – Neitron №1

|width=50% style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 31 October 2021.</span>
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!colspan="8"|Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
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!colspan="7"|Importance
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|{{FL-Class}}||||2||4||4||||||'''10'''
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|{{FM-Class}}||||||||||103||||'''103'''
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|{{GA-Class}}||11||27||36||54||||||'''128'''
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|{{B-Class}}||4||47||40||56||||||'''147'''
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|{{C-Class}}||58||159||560||587||||||'''1,364'''
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|{{Start-Class}}||33||160||1,108||2,331||||334||'''3,966'''
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|{{Stub-Class}}||||11||243||2,186||||217||'''2,657'''
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|{{List-Class}}||15||126||85||230||||1||'''457'''
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|{{Category-Class}}||||||||1||1,042||||'''1,043'''
|-
|{{Disambig-Class}}||||||||||51||||'''51'''
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|{{File-Class}}||||||||||212||||'''212'''
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|{{Portal-Class}}||||||||||55||||'''55'''
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|{{Project-Class}}||||||||||59||||'''59'''
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|{{Redirect-Class}}||||||||1||1,147||||'''1,148'''
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|{{Template-Class}}||||||||||505||||'''505'''
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|style="text-align: center;"|'''Other'''||||||||||23||||'''23'''
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|{{Assessed-Class}}||128||553||2,082||5,457||3,197||552||'''11,969'''
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|style="text-align: center;"|'''Total'''||'''128'''||'''553'''||'''2,082'''||'''5,457'''||'''3,197'''||'''552'''||'''11,969'''
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Since August: 75 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 3 more FA class articles, 1 more FL class page and 1 more FM class file. There are 6 less files. There are 6 more GA class articles and 1 more B-class article, 71 more C-class, 33 more start-class and 28 less stub-class articles.
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!rowspan=2 style="padding:0px 2em; font-size:42px; text-align:left;"|The Downlink
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 3 &#8212; Issue 1
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|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;">'''Introduction to Volume 3'''</span>
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:Initially launched in late 2010/early 2011 for a run of four months, ''The Downlink'' was unpublished for more than nine years, after which a second volume was published from October 2020 to October 2021. This second volume was very different from the first volume, both in style and structure. A December issue ↗ was planned (for some reason, the second volume became volume 1 in April 2021), but was never finished. Like with volume 2, this volume 3 was intended to come with changes, though primarily to style.
:Volume 3 will not feature any significant changes to style or structure. This both provides continuity with the previous volume and allows the contributors to construct each issue relatively easily. However, following volumes may see changes to style, format, and upload schedule. As it is still very early in the year, a discussion on this is not yet necessary, but suggestions of all kinds are always welcome at the talk page ↗.
|-
|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''In the News'''</span>
----

• Blue Ghost Mission 1 ↗ and Hakuto-R Mission 2 ↗ were launched from Kennedy Space Center ↗ on 15 January. They are planned to land in March and April, respectively.


• On 30 January, Sunita Williams ↗ broke Peggy Whitson ↗'s record for most time spent on spacewalks by a woman, at 62 hours and 6 minutes total.


• ISRO ↗ successfully docked two SpaDeX ↗ satellites on 16 January, making India the fourth country (including the EU) to dock two vehicles in space.


• Blue Origin ↗'s New Glenn ↗ launch vehicle completed its maiden flight on 16 January. The payload was successfully placed in orbit, while the first staged failed to land on the recovery ship.

|-
|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Featured Content'''</span>
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• The image Jupiter clouds ↗ was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on 4 January. It was nominated by {{noping|MER-C}}.

|-
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Article of the Month'''''</span><br/>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Soyuz programme'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Soyuz programme|references=no|hat=no}}
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the Month'''''</span><br/>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Gene Cernan on the Moon'''</div>
200px|right ↗
Gene Cernan ↗ was the eleventh and (as of 2025) last person to ever step foot on the moon. In addition to being an astronaut, he was an aviator in the US Navy and engineer. Apollo 17 ↗ was his second Apollo mission, as he served as Apollo 10 ↗'s lunar module pilot. He died in Houston ↗ on 16 January, 2017. He was the first astronaut to be buried at Texas State Cemetery ↗.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
----
New members:

• {{noping|Joost van Assenbergh}} (9 January)


• {{noping|TheCosmicNebula}} (25 January)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 200. Total number of members: 426.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC. For a complete list, see here: List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_January–June_2025#January ↗.</span>
----
#{{Flag icon|USA}} New Glenn ↗ — DarkSky-1 ↗ (16 Jan. at 07:03) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flag icon|USA}} SpaceX Starship ↗ — 10 Starlink ↗ simulators (16 Jan. at 22:37) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
|width=50% style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 31 January 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 14
|| 8
||
||
|| '''57'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 123
||
|| '''123'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 2
||
||
|| '''5'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 27
|| 34
|| 55
||
|| 1
|| '''128'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 83
|| 201
|| 217
||
|| 1
|| '''517'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 43
|| 161
|| 574
|| 754
||
|| 29
|| '''1,561'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 18
|| 146
|| 1,022
|| 2,558
||
|| 434
|| '''4,178'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 9
|| 203
|| 2,052
||
|| 243
|| '''2,507'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 10
|| 116
|| 108
|| 236
|| 1
|| 26
|| '''497'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,228
||
|| '''1,228'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 223
||
|| '''223'''
|-
| {{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}}
||
|| 1
|| 42
|| 131
|| 1,238
||
|| '''1,412'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 525
||
|| '''525'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 5
||
|| '''5'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 39
||
|| '''39'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 574
|| 2,204
|| 6,017
|| 3,593
|| 734
|| '''13,227'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 19
||
|| 133
|| '''152'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''574'''
|| '''2,204'''
|| '''6,036'''
|| '''3,593'''
|| '''867'''
|| '''13,379'''
|-
|}

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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since December 2024, five new high-importance, eight new mid-importance, forty new low-importance, and 1,522 new NA-importance articles have been created. Fifteen unknown-importance articles have been removed, for a total of 1,560 more articles. One article has been promoted to ''Good Article'' status. There are also three more B-class articles, eleven more C-class articles, 23 more Start-class articles, four more Stub-class articles, 4 more lists, and 34 more files.
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''The Downlink'' Volume 3, Issue 2

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|The <span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span> ↗ Newsletter
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| 2025 <br/> 1 &#8212; 28 February
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 3 &#8212; Issue 2
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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>
----

• On 17 February, as part of a Commercial Lunar Payload Services ↗ mission, Intuitive Machines ↗' lunar lander IM-2 ↗ was launched on board a Falcon 9 ↗. It was also launched with Lunar Trailblazer ↗ and Brokkr-2 ↗.


• The European Space Agency ↗'s space telescope INTEGRAL ↗ was retired on 28 February after 22 years, five months, and one day. It is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in 2029.

|-
|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;">'''''Family Portrait'' (Voyager) ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Family Portrait (Voyager)|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;">'''STS-98 following liftoff'''</div>
200px|right ↗
Launched on 7 February 2001, STS-98 delivered to the ''Destiny'' laboratory module ↗ of the International Space Station. Flown by ''Atlantis'' ↗, it was the first human spaceflight mission of the 21st century. The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base ↗ on 20 February after being docked with the ISS for almost seven days. The crew consisted of Kenneth Cockrell ↗, commander, Mark L. Polansky ↗, pilot, Robert Curbeam ↗, mission specialist 1, Marsha Ivins ↗, mission specialist 2 and flight engineer, and Thomas David Jones ↗, mission specialist 3.
|-
|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members: ''No new members''.
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 200.
Total number of members: 426.}}
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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>
----
#{{Flag icon|RUS}} Soyuz 2.1v ↗ and Volga ↗ — Kosmos ↗-2581/-2582/-2583 (5 Feb. at 03:59) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flag icon|China}} Long March 8A ↗ — 9 Hulianwang Digui (11 Feb. at 09:30) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flag icon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — 23 Starlink ↗ (18 Feb. at 23:21) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flag icon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — ''multiple'' (27 Feb. at 00:02) ({{Color|green|launch success}})
|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from the 28 February 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 14
|| 8
||
||
|| '''57'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 123
||
|| '''123'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 3
|| 2
||
||
|| '''6'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 27
|| 33
|| 55
||
|| 1
|| '''127'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 83
|| 200
|| 217
||
|| 1
|| '''516'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 43
|| 162
|| 575
|| 760
||
|| 30
|| '''1,570'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 18
|| 146
|| 1,022
|| 2,565
||
|| 440
|| '''4,191'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 9
|| 203
|| 2,054
||
|| 244
|| '''2,510'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 10
|| 116
|| 108
|| 236
|| 1
|| 27
|| '''498'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,262
||
|| '''1,262'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 223
||
|| '''223'''
|-
| {{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}}
||
|| 1
|| 42
|| 131
|| 1,238
||
|| '''1,412'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 527
||
|| '''527'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 3
||
|| '''3'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
|| 1
|| 34
||
|| '''35'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 575
|| 2,204
|| 6,033
|| 3,622
|| 743
|| '''13,282'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 19
||
|| 136
|| '''155'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''575'''
|| '''2,204'''
|| '''6,052'''
|| '''3,622'''
|| '''879'''
|| '''13,437'''
|-
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since January 2025, one new high-importance, sixteen new low-importance, nineteen new NA-importance, and twelve new unknown-importance articles have been created, for a total of 58 new articles. One article has been demoted from ''Good Article'' status. There are also one more A-class article, one more B-class article, nine fewer C-class articles, thirteen more Start-class articles, three more Stub-class articles, and one more list.
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 3 &#8212; Issue 3
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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>
----

• Firefly Aerospace ↗ became the first commercial company to successfully achieve a soft landing on the moon on 2 March with the landing of Blue Ghost Mission 1 ↗ near Mons Latreille ↗. It lasted the intended length of one lunar day ↗ before losing power on 16 March. It was launched with the Hakuto-R Mission 2 ↗ lander ''Resilience'' and rover ''Tenacious'', which are planned to land in the Mare Frigoris ↗.


• On 6 March, the IM-2 ↗ mission's lunar lander ''Athena'' landed on Mons Mouton ↗. Although intact, it landed sideways, preventing it from generating enough power to operate as designed. The mission was declared over the following day.


• SpaceX Crew-9 ↗ splashed down near Tallahassee, Florida ↗ on 18 March. Initially planned to launch with a full complement, the extension of Barry Wilmore ↗ and Sunita Williams ↗' stay on the ISS ↗ resulted in it being launched with only two crew members.

|-
|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;">'''Phootprint ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Phootprint|Overview and status|paragraphs=1, 3-4|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;">'''InSight lander testing'''</div>
200px|right ↗
The InSight ↗ (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander was selected from among three options in August 2012. Initially planned to launch in March 2016, an instrument issue delayed the launch to May 2018, the next Earth-Mars launch window ↗. It was successfully launched on 5 May, and landed on Elysium Planitia ↗ on 26 November 2018. Taking seismographic and thermographic readings, InSight operated for a total of 4 years and 19 days instead of its planned 2 year mission. The mission was declared over on 21 December, 2022 after contact was lost on 15 December. A re-analysis of some of its data indicates that there may be significant amounts of groundwater in Mars' crust.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{Noping|Desertroseflora}} (6 March)


• {{Noping|Nowhed}} (13 March)


• {{Noping|4-RAZOR 01}} (15 March)


• {{Noping|Orion.Project}} (28 March)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 206.
Total number of members: 430.}}
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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>
----
#{{Flagicon|FRA}} Ariane 62 ↗ — CSO-3 ↗ (6 Mar. at 16:24 UTC ↗) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} SpaceX Starship ↗ — four Starlink ↗ simulators (6 Mar. at 23:30 UTC) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|JAP}} Rocket Lab Electron ↗ — QPS-SAR 9/SUSANOO-1 (15 Mar. at 00:00 UTC) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|GER}} Spectrum ↗ — ''no payload'' (30 Mar. at 10:30 UTC) ({{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 the 28 February 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 14
|| 8
||
||
|| '''57'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 123
||
|| '''123'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 3
|| 2
||
||
|| '''6'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 27
|| 33
|| 55
||
|| 1
|| '''127'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 84
|| 199
|| 217
||
|| 1
|| '''516'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 43
|| 161
|| 577
|| 764
||
|| 30
|| '''1,575'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 18
|| 145
|| 1,021
|| 2,569
||
|| 441
|| '''4,194'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 9
|| 203
|| 2,055
||
|| 245
|| '''2,512'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 10
|| 116
|| 108
|| 236
|| 1
|| 28
|| '''499'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,263
||
|| '''1,263'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 223
||
|| '''223'''
|-
| {{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
|| 42
|| 129
|| 1,241
||
|| '''1,414'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 528
||
|| '''528'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 3
||
|| '''3'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 28
||
|| '''28'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 575
|| 2,204
|| 6,039
|| 3,621
|| 746
|| '''13,290'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 19
||
|| 134
|| '''153'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''575'''
|| '''2,204'''
|| '''6,058'''
|| '''3,621'''
|| '''880'''
|| '''13,443'''
|-
|}
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since February 2025, six new low-importance and one new unknown-importance articles have been created. One NA-importance article has been removed, for a total of six new articles. There are also five more C-class articles, three more Start-class articles, two more Stub-class articles, and one more list.
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• On 1 April, Fram2 ↗ became the first crewed mission to enter into a retrograde orbit around Earth's poles.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Apollo Abort Guidance System ↗'''</div>
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|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;">'''Falcon 9 Full Thrust'''</div>
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Starting development in 2014, the Falcon 9 Full Thrust ↗ is a variant of the Falcon 9 ↗ that is the first orbital rocket to have a first stage successfully land vertically after launch. The stage shown here is from the April 2016 SpaceX CRS-8 ↗ mission, after landing on the autonomous spaceport drone ship ↗ ''Of Course I Still Love You''.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{Noping|Willbill6272}} (14 April)


• {{Noping|Elleh3113}} (16 April)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 208.
Total number of members: 433.}}
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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: here ↗.</span>
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#{{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — Fram2 ↗ (1 Apr. at 00:46 UTC ↗) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|China}} Long March 2F/G ↗ — Shenzhou 20 ↗ (24 Apr. at 09:17 UTC) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Atlas V ↗ 551 — 27 KuiperSat ↗s (28 Apr. at 23:01) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Firefly Alpha ↗ — LM-400 Demo (29 Apr. at 13:37) ({{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 30 April 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''58'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 123
||
|| '''123'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 2
||
||
|| '''5'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 27
|| 33
|| 55
||
|| 1
|| '''127'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 84
|| 200
|| 221
||
|| 1
|| '''521'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 45
|| 162
|| 581
|| 774
||
|| 31
|| '''1,593'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 144
|| 1,017
|| 2,584
||
|| 444
|| '''4,205'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 9
|| 204
|| 2,049
||
|| 244
|| '''2,506'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 10
|| 120
|| 108
|| 236
|| 1
|| 30
|| '''505'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,264
||
|| '''1,264'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 223
||
|| '''223'''
|-
| {{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
|| 42
|| 131
|| 1,243
||
|| '''1,418'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 528
||
|| '''528'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 29
||
|| '''29'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 579
|| 2,206
|| 6,064
|| 3,623
|| 751
|| '''13,328'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 14
||
|| 125
|| '''139'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''579'''
|| '''2,206'''
|| '''6,078'''
|| '''3,623'''
|| '''876'''
|| '''13,467'''
|-
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Since March 2025, four new high-importance, two new mid-importance, twenty new low-importance, and two new NA-importance articles have been created. Four unknown-importance articles have been removed, for a total of 24 new articles. One article has been promoted to ''Featured Article'' status. There are also five more B-class articles, eighteen more C-class articles, eleven more Start-class articles, six fewer Stub-class articles, and six more lists.

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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 6 May, Hakuto-R Mission 2 ↗ successfully entered lunar orbit.


• The Soviet ↗ probe Kosmos 482 ↗ crashed into the Indian Ocean ↗ after 53 years in orbit on 10 May. According to Roscosmos ↗, this happened at 06:24 UTC ↗.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''2001 Mars Odyssey ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|2001 Mars Odyssey|paragraphs=1-2|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;">'''International Space Station after LF1'''</div>
200px|right ↗
Starting with ''Zarya ↗'' in November 1998, the assembly of the International Space Station ↗ continued on a regular basis until the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ↗, which resulted in a nearly three-year pause from November 2002 to July 2005. This image shows the ISS following the installation of the second External stowage platform ↗. ESP-2 was launched on 26 July 2005 on board ''Discovery ↗'' as part of STS-114 ↗.
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New Members:

• {{Noping|Animalculum}} (1 May)


• {{Noping|Luckytent}} (21 May)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 209.
Total number of members: 434.}}
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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|USA}} Starship ↗ — 8 Starlink ↗ Simulators (27 May at 23:36:28 UTC) ({{Color|red|partial failure}})
#{{Flagicon|China}} Long March 4B ↗ — Tianwen-2 ↗ (28 May at 04:00 UTC) ({{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 May 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''58'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 123
||
|| '''123'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 2
||
||
|| '''5'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 27
|| 33
|| 55
||
|| 1
|| '''127'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 84
|| 200
|| 220
||
|| 1
|| '''520'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 45
|| 163
|| 583
|| 784
||
|| 32
|| '''1,607'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 143
|| 1,017
|| 2,591
||
|| 444
|| '''4,211'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 9
|| 205
|| 2,043
||
|| 245
|| '''2,502'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 10
|| 120
|| 108
|| 236
|| 1
|| 33
|| '''508'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,266
||
|| '''1,266'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 46
||
|| '''46'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 223
||
|| '''223'''
|-
| {{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
|| 42
|| 132
|| 1,244
||
|| '''1,420'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 527
||
|| '''527'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 28
||
|| '''28'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 579
|| 2,209
|| 6,075
|| 3,623
|| 756
|| '''13,347'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 12
||
|| 123
|| '''135'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''579'''
|| '''2,209'''
|| '''6,087'''
|| '''3,623'''
|| '''879'''
|| '''13,482'''
|-
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Since April 2025, three new mid-importance, nine new low-importance, and three new unknown-importance articles have been created, for a total of 15 new articles. There is also one less B-class article, 14 more C-class articles, six more Start-class articles, four less Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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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 5 June, Hakuto-R Mission 2 ↗ crashed attempting to land in Mare Frigoris ↗.


• The Parker Solar Probe ↗ achieved its 24th perihelion ↗ on 19 June.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Gaganyaan-1 ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Gaganyaan-1|references=no|hat=no}}
{{Excerpt|Gaganyaan-1|section=Background|paragraph=1|references=no|hat=no}}
{{Excerpt|Gaganyaan-1|section=Mission objectives|paragraph=1|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;">'''Hybrid-Propellant Rocket Fuel'''</div>
300px|right ↗
Rocket engines typically use one of two types of propellant: Solid ↗ or liquid ↗. Hybrid-propellant rocket ↗s use a combination of these two forms of fuel, and lack some of the disadvantages of both. Their specific impulse ↗ is usually between solid-propellant ↗ and liquid-propellant rockets ↗. The image shown here is of a 3D-printed grain ↗, designed for a small hybrid rocket engine which would be used to demonstrate rocket combustion. On the left are two helical fuel ports, on the right a de Laval nozzle ↗.
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New Members:

• {{Noping|SpaceNerd13}} (2 June)


• {{Noping|Canadien1867}} (2 June)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 210.
Total number of members: 436.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''June 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}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — 26 Starlink ↗ (13 Jun. at 01:30) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|Russia}} Angara A5 ↗ — 2 Kosmos ↗ (19 Jun. at 03:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 — Axiom Mission 4 ↗ (25 Jun. at 06:31) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|Japan}} H-IIA ↗ — GOSAT-GW ↗ (28 Jun. at 16:33:03) ({{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 June 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''58'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 123
||
|| '''123'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 1
||
||
|| '''4'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 27
|| 33
|| 56
||
|| 1
|| '''128'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 84
|| 200
|| 223
||
|| 4
|| '''526'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 45
|| 164
|| 586
|| 788
||
|| 37
|| '''1,620'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 144
|| 1,015
|| 2,600
||
|| 446
|| '''4,221'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 8
|| 205
|| 2,037
||
|| 245
|| '''2,495'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 10
|| 120
|| 109
|| 237
|| 1
|| 36
|| '''513'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,268
||
|| '''1,268'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 222
||
|| '''222'''
|-
| {{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
|| 42
|| 134
|| 1,248
||
|| '''1,426'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 527
||
|| '''527'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 26
||
|| '''26'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 580
|| 2,211
|| 6,088
|| 3,627
|| 769
|| '''13,380'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 9
||
|| 122
|| '''131'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''580'''
|| '''2,211'''
|| '''6,097'''
|| '''3,627'''
|| '''891'''
|| '''13,511'''
|-
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since May 2025, one new high-importance, two new mid-importance, ten new low-importance, four new NA-importance, and twelve new unknown-importance articles have been created, for a total of 29 new articles. There is also one fewer A-class article, one more GA-class article, six more B-class articles, 13 more C-class articles, ten more Start-class articles, seven fewer Stub-class articles, and five more lists.
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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 launch attempt of an Australian-made rocket, Gilmour Space Technologies ↗' Eris-1, was made on 29/30 July. The launch vehicle crashed 14 seconds after launch due to insufficient thrust.


• The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar ↗ satellite launched on 30 July. The first radar imaging that uses dual frequencies, it is a joint project between NASA ↗ and ISRO ↗, and believed to cost ~US$1.5 billion, making it one of the most expensive Earth-imaging satellites.

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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 LVM3 M4 carrying Chaandrayan-3 during lift-off ↗ was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on 16 July. It was nominated by {{Noping|UnpetitproleX}}

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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;">'''Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments|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;">'''Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the Moon'''</div>
300px|right ↗
In July of 1969, Apollo 11 ↗ successfully fulfilled John F. Kennedy ↗'s goal of a person landing on, and returning from, the moon before the 1970s. Taking off on 16 July, the lunar lander, ''Eagle'' ↗, touched down on the evening of the 20th (UTC). Neil Armstrong ↗ and Buzz Aldrin ↗ exited the lander six hours later, becoming the first men on the moon. The pair stayed on the lunar surface for about 21 hours. This image is actually the second of a pair of images, taken by Aldrin so that the lunar surface's ability to bear weight could be measured.
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New Members:

• {{Noping|Abdullah1099}} (9 July)


• {{Noping|Manav2311}} (25 July)


• {{Noping|Space.tracker.nerd}} (29 July)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 213.
Total number of members: 439.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''June 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|China}} Long March 4C ↗ — Shiyan 28B-01 ↗ (3 Jul. at 09:35) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ — Progress MS-31 ↗ (3 Jul. at 19:31) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|Israel}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — Dror-1 (PR-8000) (13 Jul. at 05:04) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|China}} Hyperbola-1 ↗ — Kunpeng-03 (Enshi Xidou Shanquan/HS-9) (29 Jul. at 04:10) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|Australia}} Eris Block 1 ↗ — Jar of Vegemite ↗ (29 Jul. at 21:30) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|China}} Long March 8A ↗ — 9 Guowang ↗ (30 Jul. at 07:49) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|India}}{{Flagicon|USA}} GSLV Mark II ↗ — NISAR (30 Jul. at 12:10) ({{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 July 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''58'''
|-
| {{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}}
|| 11
|| 26
|| 33
|| 57
||
|| 2
|| '''129'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 85
|| 201
|| 224
||
|| 4
|| '''529'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 45
|| 162
|| 588
|| 788
||
|| 40
|| '''1,623'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 140
|| 1,019
|| 2,603
||
|| 461
|| '''4,239'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 7
|| 204
|| 2,035
||
|| 247
|| '''2,493'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 10
|| 120
|| 109
|| 236
|| 1
|| 36
|| '''512'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,270
||
|| '''1,270'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 222
||
|| '''222'''
|-
| {{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
|| 42
|| 134
|| 1,248
||
|| '''1,426'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 528
||
|| '''528'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 25
||
|| '''25'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 573
|| 2,217
|| 6,090
|| 3,630
|| 790
|| '''13,405'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 10
||
|| 130
|| '''140'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''573'''
|| '''2,217'''
|| '''6,100'''
|| '''3,630'''
|| '''920'''
|| '''13,545'''
|-
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since June 2025, there are seven fewer high-importance, six new mid-importance, three new low-importance, three new NA-importance, and 29 new unknown-importance articles, for a total of 34 more articles. There is also one GA-class article, three more B-class articles, three more C-class articles, 18 more Start-class articles, two fewer Stub-class articles, and one fewer lists.
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• The VC4S ↗ configuration of United Launch Alliance ↗'s Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle had a successful maiden flight on 13 August.

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|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;">'''Apollo 15 Lunar Module'''</div>
200px|right ↗
Launched on 26 July, 1971, Apollo 15 ↗ was the fourth Apollo mission to successfully land on the moon, and the first of the longer, more science-focused J Mission ↗s. Landing at Hadley–Apennine ↗ on the 30, Commander David Scott ↗ and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin ↗ (''Irwin on left'') stayed on the moon's surface until 2 August, while Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden ↗ stayed in orbit, collecting a variety of data on the moon. Apollo 15 was the first mission to use the Lunar Roving Vehicle ↗ (''on right''), which allowed Scott and Irwin to travel farther from the Lunar Lander (''center'') than previously possible.

On 4 August, the lunar orbiter departed from orbit at the end of Apollo 15's 74th lunar orbit ↗. On the 5, Worden performed an EVA ↗ which lasted 39 minutes. This was the first of three deep-space EVAs, all performed during J Missions. The command module landed in the North Pacific Ocean on the 7, with the command module and crew being recovered by USS ''Okinawa'' ↗. Apollo 15 was the longest Apollo mission, lasting for a total of 12 days and 7 hours, until Apollo 17 ↗, which lasted 12 days, 13 hours, and 52 minutes.
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New Members: ''No new members''

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 213.
Total number of members: 439.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''August 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|France}} Ariane 62 ↗ — MetOp-SG A1 ↗ (13 Aug. at 00:37) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|US}} Vulcan Centaur VC4S ↗ — NTS-3 ↗ (13 Aug. at 00:56) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ — Bion-M No.2 ↗ (20 Aug. at 17:13) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|US}} SpaceX Starship ↗ — 8 Starlink ↗ simulators (26 Aug. at 23:30) ({{Color|green|success}})
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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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''58'''
|-
| {{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}}
|| 11
|| 27
|| 33
|| 57
||
|| 2
|| '''130'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 85
|| 200
|| 226
||
|| 4
|| '''531'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 45
|| 162
|| 594
|| 794
||
|| 46
|| '''1,641'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 140
|| 1,017
|| 2,615
||
|| 463
|| '''4,251'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 6
|| 203
|| 2,022
||
|| 246
|| '''2,477'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 10
|| 119
|| 109
|| 236
|| 1
|| 37
|| '''512'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,275
||
|| '''1,275'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 260
||
|| '''260'''
|-
| {{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
|| 42
|| 140
|| 1,246
||
|| '''1,430'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 528
||
|| '''528'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 30
||
|| '''30'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 106
|| 572
|| 2,219
|| 6,103
|| 3,677
|| 798
|| '''13,475'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 10
||
|| 129
|| '''139'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''106'''
|| '''572'''
|| '''2,219'''
|| '''6,113'''
|| '''3,677'''
|| '''927'''
|| '''13,614'''
|-
|}

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Since July 2025, there is one new top-importance, one fewer high-importance, two new mid-importance, 13 new low-importance, 47 new NA-importance, and seven new unknown-importance articles, for a total of 69 more articles. There is also one more GA-class article, two more B-class articles, 18 more C-class articles, 12 more Start-class articles, and 16 fewer Stub-class articles.
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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 9

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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 3 &#8212; Issue 9
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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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• OSIRIS-REx ↗ performed a gravity assist ↗ around Earth at an altitude of {{Convert|3442|km|mi}} on 23 September.

|-
|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;">'''Project POSTAR ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Project POSTAR|only=paragraphs|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 ''Enterprise'''''</div>
200px|right ↗
The Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'' ↗ (OV-101) was the first orbiter built in the Space Shuttle program ↗. Designed for atmospheric test flights, it lacked both engines and a heat shield, making it unable to go to space. Rolled out on 17 September 1976, it was initially named ''Constitution'', but was renamed following a large letter-writing campaign from Trekkie ↗s. Unlike its eponym ↗, the USS ''Enterprise'' ↗ from the original ''Star Trek'' series ↗, OV-101 never achieved spaceflight; originally intended to be refitted ↗ to become the second space-rated orbiter after ''Columbia'' ↗, changes to the design of the Space Shuttle made it both simpler and cheaper to instead construct a new shuttle, ''Challenger'' ↗, around a test article ↗. It was later considered for refitting following the ''Challenger'' disaster ↗, but it was instead decided to build a replacement, ''Endeavour'' ↗, out of spare parts from the construction of ''Discovery'' ↗ and ''Atlantis'' ↗.

''Enterprise'' flew a total of five times, from 12 August to 26 October, 1977. It was then flown to Marshall Space Flight Center ↗ in Alabama ↗, where it was placed into the Saturn V dynamic test stand ↗ for the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Testing, in order to test the Space Shuttle's launch stack. It was then used for a variety of fit checks at Kennedy Space Center ↗ and Vandenberg Air Force Base ↗, between which it toured Europe and North America, including a showing at the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition ↗. It was then moved to the Smithsonian Institution ↗'s National Air and Space Museum ↗ on 18 November 1985. It was then moved to its present location aboard the USS ''Intrepid'' museum ship ↗ on 12 December 2011.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{Noping|BalaM314}} (7 September)


• {{Noping|Squawkconspicuity}} (29 September)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 214.
Total number of members: 440.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''September 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}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — 28 Starlink ↗ (5 Sept. at 13:56) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — 24 Starlink ↗ (6 Sept. at 18:06) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|Indonesia}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — Nusantara Lima ↗ (12 Sept. at 00:56) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|PRC}} Long March 2D ↗ — Shiyan 30A/B ↗ (29 Sept. at 03:00) ({{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 September 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''58'''
|-
| {{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
|| 27
|| 33
|| 57
||
|| 2
|| '''131'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 79
|| 191
|| 230
||
|| 5
|| '''520'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 45
|| 167
|| 599
|| 808
|| 1
|| 49
|| '''1,669'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 135
|| 1,035
|| 2,658
||
|| 473
|| '''4,316'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 196
|| 1,989
||
|| 245
|| '''2,435'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 109
|| 235
|| 1
|| 39
|| '''514'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,276
||
|| '''1,276'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 261
||
|| '''261'''
|-
| {{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
|| 42
|| 141
|| 1,245
||
|| '''1,430'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 529
||
|| '''529'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 30
||
|| '''30'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 106
|| 565
|| 2,226
|| 6,131
|| 3,680
|| 813
|| '''13,521'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 10
||
|| 126
|| '''136'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''106'''
|| '''565'''
|| '''2,226'''
|| '''6,141'''
|| '''3,680'''
|| '''939'''
|| '''13,657'''
|-
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Since August 2025, there are seven fewer high-importance, seven more mid-importance, 28 more low-importance, three more NA-importance, and twelve more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 43 more articles. There is also one more GA-class article, 11 fewer B-class articles, 28 fewer C-class articles, 65 more Start-class articles, 42 fewer Stub-class articles, and two more lists.
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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 10

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|The <span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span> ↗ Newsletter
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 3 &#8212; Issue 10
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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 13 November, the ESCAPADE ↗ spacecraft SIMPLEx-4A (''Blue'') and SIMPLEx-4B (''Gold'') were launched on board a New Glenn ↗ rocket. They will orbit Earth at its L{{Sub|2}} point ↗ until the Mars transfer window opens in late 2026.


• On the second flight of New Glenn ↗, the first stage, "Never Tell Me the Odds," landed on the drone ship ''Jacklyn'' ↗ on 13 November. This made New Glenn the first orbital-class booster capable of landing propulsively ↗ not manufactured by SpaceX ↗.


• As a result of damage caused by space debris ↗, China's Shenzhou 20 ↗ was rendered unusable for returning its crew back to Earth. The crew instead returned on board the Shenzhou 21 ↗ craft on 14 November, with Shenzhou 22 ↗ being launched uncrewed on 25 November to serve as a return vessel for the crew of Shenzhou 21.


• On 27 November, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 ↗, the only launch site used by Russia to reach the ISS, was significantly damaged during the launch of Soyuz MS-28 ↗.

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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 "NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars ↗" was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on 23 October. It was nominated by {{Noping|WhatADrag07}}.

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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;">'''Zond 6 ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Zond 6|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;">'''Explosion on the Cygnus CRS Orb-3'''</div>
250px|right ↗
On 28 October, 2014, Cygnus Orb-3 ↗ was launched at 22:22:38 UTC. 15 seconds after liftoff, one of the launch vehicle's AJ26 (modified NK-33 ↗s) ruptured, resulting in the craft falling. The mission was scrubbed eight seconds later at 22:23:01 UTC. The subsequent investigation found that the liquid oxygen ↗ turbopump exploded, severing nearby propellant lines. This resulted in a fire that damaged various engine components. The cause of the LOX turbopump's failure remains unknown.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

• {{Noping|Hal Nordmann}} (1 October)


• {{Noping|R-Beepy}} (3 November)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 217.
Total number of members: 444.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''October–November 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|China}} Long March 8 ↗A — 9 Guowang ↗ (16 Oct. at 01:33:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|Japan}}{{Flagicon|Italy}}{{Flagicon|Mexico}}{{Flagicon|Thailand}}{{Flagicon|Malaysia}} H3-24W ↗ — HTV-X1 ↗, ''various cubeSat ↗s'' (26 Oct. at 00:00:15) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|China}} Long March 2F ↗/G — Shenzhou 21 ↗ (31 Oct. at 15:44:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|India}} LVM3 ↗ — GSAT-7R ↗ (2 Nov. at 11:56:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|US}} New Glenn ↗ — ESCAPADE ↗ ''Blue'' and ''Gold'' (13 Nov. at 20:55:01) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|US}} Atlas V ↗ 551 — Viasat 3 ↗ EMEA (14 Nov. at 03:04:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ — Soyuz MS-28 ↗ (27 Nov. at 09:27:57) ({{Color|orange|successful launch; spaceport damaged}})

|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from 30 November 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 28
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''58'''
|-
| {{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
|| 27
|| 33
|| 57
||
|| 2
|| '''131'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 77
|| 196
|| 234
||
|| 5
|| '''528'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 45
|| 170
|| 606
|| 834
|| 1
|| 56
|| '''1,712'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 134
|| 1,025
|| 2,690
||
|| 480
|| '''4,344'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 196
|| 1,981
||
|| 278
|| '''2,460'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 108
|| 236
|| 1
|| 42
|| '''517'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,280
||
|| '''1,280'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 262
||
|| '''262'''
|-
| {{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
|| 1,246
||
|| '''1,434'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 532
||
|| '''532'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 2
||
|| '''2'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
|| 1
||
|| 31
||
|| '''32'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 107
|| 565
|| 2,229
|| 6,188
|| 3,691
|| 863
|| '''13,643'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 9
||
|| 118
|| '''127'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''107'''
|| '''565'''
|| '''2,229'''
|| '''6,197'''
|| '''3,691'''
|| '''981'''
|| '''13,770'''
|-
|}

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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since September 2025, there are one more high-importance, three more mid-importance, 56 more low-importance, eleven more eight NA-importance, and 42 more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 113 more articles. There are also eight more B-class articles, 43 more C-class articles, 28 more Start-class articles, 25 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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''The Downlink'' Volume 3, Issue 11

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| 2025 <br/> 1 &#8212; 31 December
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 3 &#8212; Issue 11
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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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• The International Space Station ↗'s eight compartments were fully occupied for the first time on 1 December, with the rebirthing of Cygnus NG-23 ↗ to ''Unity'' ↗.


• On 3 December, China's Zhuque-3 ↗ made the first non-American attempt at landing a booster. The booster failed to land following a landing-burn anomaly. A second attempt on the 23rd, this time using the new Long March 2A ↗ launch vehicle, also failed.


• On 6 December, contact with NASA's MAVEN ↗ Mars orbiter was lost. The last received telemetry ↗ was from the 4th, with the fragmented transmission of the 6th suggesting that the craft was rotating in an unintended way, and possibly having changed orbit. As of 16 January 2026, the mission has not yet been officially ended, although reestablishing communications with MAVEN is considered highly improbable.

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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 article "Gordon Cooper ↗" was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Article'' status on 9 December. It was nominated by {{Noping|Hawkeye7}}.

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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;">'''PROCYON ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|PROCYON|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;">'''STS-116 spacewalk'''</div>
200px|right ↗
STS-116 ↗ was the 33rd mission of the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' ↗. Launched in the late evening of 6 December, the main aims of the mission were the installation of one of the International Space Station's Integrated Truss Structure ↗ segments, rewiring of the power system, and personnel exchange. Also known as ISS-12A.1, STS-116 was the first mission to include a Swedish astronaut, Christer Fuglesang ↗. It returned to Earth in the evening of 22 December.<br/><br/>This image, of the first of three EVA ↗ sessions, was taken on the fourth day of the mission. Flight engineer Robert Curbeam ↗ is on the left, opposite mission specialist 3 Christer Fuglesang. The image was taken over New Zealand ↗; the South Island ↗ is visible on the left, while the southern portion of the North Island ↗, mostly consisting of the Wairarapa ↗ region, is visible in the top-right.
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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: 218.
Total number of members: 445.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''December Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC. See the complete list here ↗.</span>
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#{{Flagicon|China}} Zhuque-3 ↗ — ''no payload'' (3 Dec. at 04:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|ROK}}{{Flagicon|Brazil}}{{Flagicon|India}} HANBIT-NANO ↗ — ''various'' (22 Dec. at 12:45) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|China}} Long March 12A ↗ — ''mass simulator'' (23 Dec. at 02:00:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|India}}{{Flagicon|US}} LVM3 ↗ — BlueBird-6 (24 Dec. at 03:25:30) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|Russia}}{{Flagicon|Iran}}{{Flagicon|Montenegro}}{{Flagicon|Kuwait}}{{Flagicon|Belarus}} Soyuz-2.1b ↗ (1st stage), Fregat-M ↗ (2nd stage) — ''various'' (28 Dec. at 13:18:05) ({{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 December 2025.</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}}
|| 7
|| 29
|| 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
|| 33
|| 57
||
|| 2
|| '''130'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 78
|| 195
|| 234
||
|| 5
|| '''528'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 45
|| 169
|| 609
|| 847
|| 1
|| 57
|| '''1,728'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 134
|| 1,024
|| 2,698
||
|| 493
|| '''4,364'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 196
|| 1,988
||
|| 282
|| '''2,471'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 109
|| 238
|| 1
|| 43
|| '''521'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,281
||
|| '''1,281'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 262
||
|| '''262'''
|-
| {{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
|| 1,246
||
|| '''1,432'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 532
||
|| '''532'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 2
||
|| '''2'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 32
||
|| '''32'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 107
|| 565
|| 2,230
|| 6,216
|| 3,693
|| 882
|| '''13,693'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
||
||
|| 10
||
|| 119
|| '''129'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''107'''
|| '''565'''
|| '''2,230'''
|| '''6,226'''
|| '''3,693'''
|| '''1,001'''
|| '''13,822'''
|-
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Since November 2025, there are one more mid-importance, 29 more low-importance, two more NA-importance, and 20 more unknown-importance class articles, for a total of 52 more articles. There are also one more FA-class articles, one less GA-class articles, ten more C-class articles, 20 more Start-class articles, eleven more Stub-class articles, and four more lists.
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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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• 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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|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;">'''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>
200px|right ↗
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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| 2026 <br/> 1 &#8212; 28 February
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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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• 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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|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;">'''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>
200px|right ↗
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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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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|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.

|-
|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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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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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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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 4

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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.

|-
|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}}.
|-
|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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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 5

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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 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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|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.
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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>
----
# {{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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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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