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The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 1

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Volume 2 — Issue 1
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In the News! 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.
Article of the month. John Glenn 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.	Image of the month. 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.
Members New Members: F.Alexsandr (Joined on the 8th October) Dndlp (Joined on the 18th October) Path slopu (Joined on the 23rd October) Wehwalt (Joined on the 24th October) Whoop whoop pull up (Joined on the 24th October) Josecurioso (Joined on the 29th October) Number of active members: 91. Total number of members: 295.	Article Statistics — This data reflects values from the 31 October 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 16 2 7 32 FL 4 4 8 FM 92 92 GA 11 22 36 47 116 B 1 46 37 46 130 C 55 157 513 446 5 1,176 Start 37 159 1,121 2,186 367 3,870 Stub 8 249 2,105 223 2,585 List 14 128 76 203 421 Category 1,020 1,020 Disambig 46 46 File 194 194 Portal 54 54 Project 67 67 Redirect 1,132 1,132 Template 485 485 Other 25 25 Assessed 125 536 2,038 5,044 3,121 595 11,459 Unassessed 54 54 Total 125 536 2,038 5,044 3,121 649 11,513 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 43,516 Ω = 4.93
October Launches — All times stated here are in UTC. Antares - NG-14 (October 2nd at 01:16:14) Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L12 (October 6th at 11:29:34) Long March 3B - Gaofen 13 (October 11th at 16:57) Soyuz - ISS 63S (October 14th at 05:45:04) Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L13 (October 18th at 12:25:57) Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L14 (October 22nd at 15:31:34) Soyuz - GLONASS-K (October 25th at 19:08:42) Long March 2C - Yaogan 30-07 (October 26th at 15:19) Electron - In Focus (October 28th at 21:21:27)
November Launches — Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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 Downlink Volume 2 Issue 2

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		1 November 2020 — 30 November 2020

Volume 2 — Issue 2
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In the News! 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 16th November 2020, at 00:11:15 (UTC). Later, on 17th 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 17th November. Two satellites were lost due to an integration error of the fourth stage.
Article of the month. Apollo 12 Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms.	Image of the month. This is an image of the ISS from December 9, 2000. Almost 20 years ago, this image is one of a series of 70mm frames taken onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. With the ISS being continuously occupied for the last 20 years, this shows how the space station has developed over the years.
Members New Members: Springfield2020 (Joined on the 2nd November) Helwr (Joined on the 12th November) Hportfacts5 (Joined on the 28th November) Number of active members: 94. Total number of members: 298. November Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 - GPS 3 SV04 (5th at 23:24:23) Success Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 (6th at 3:19) Success Ceres-1 - Tianqi-11 (7th at 7:12) Success PSLV-DL - EOS 1 (7th at 9:41 Success Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 (12th at 15:59:04) Success Atlas 5 - NROL-101 (13th at 22:32) Success Falcon 9 - Crew-1 (16th at 00:27:17) Success Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17th at 01:52:20) Failure Electron - "Return to Sender" (20th at 01:44) Success Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21st at 17:71:08) Success Long March 5 - Chang’e 5 (23rd at 20:30:12) Success Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25th at 02:13:12) Success H-IIA - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29th at 7:25) Success December Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 November 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 16 2 7 32 FL 4 4 8 FM 94 94 GA 11 23 36 47 117 B 1 46 38 46 131 C 55 160 517 464 5 1,201 Start 37 158 1,125 2,204 370 3,894 Stub 8 247 2,110 225 2,590 List 14 128 77 207 426 Category 1,023 1,023 Disambig 46 46 File 197 197 Portal 55 55 Project 63 63 Redirect 1,116 1,116 Template 491 491 Other 27 27 Assessed 125 539 2,046 5,089 3,118 600 11,517 Unassessed 39 39 Total 125 539 2,046 5,089 3,118 639 11,556 Monthly Changes 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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		1 December 2020 — 31 December 2020

Volume 2 — Issue 3
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In the News! The Chang’e 5 lander landed on the moon on December 1st, and started to gather lunar samples. The Chang’e 5 ascent module launched from the moons surface on December 3rd 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 5th 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 13th.
Article of the month. Mary Jackson 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.	Image of the month. 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.
Members New Members: ExoEditor (Joined on the 14th December) XFalcon2004x (Joined on the 16th December) PythosIsAwesome (Joined on the 17th December) Number of active members: 97. Total number of members: 301. December Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 (2nd at 01:33:28) Success Soyuz - Gonets-M (3rd at 01:14:36) Success Chang'e 5 (3rd at 15:10) Success Long March 3B - Gaofen 14 (6th at 03:58) Success Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 (6th at 15:17:08) Success Long March 11 - GECAM (9th at 20:14) Success Delta 4 Heavy - NROL 44 (11th at 1:09) Success Falcon 9 - SXM 7 (13th at 17:20) Success Angara A5 - Test Flight (14th at 5:50:00) Success Electron - The Owl's Night Begins (15th at 10:09:27) Success Rocket 3 - Test Flight (15th at 20:55) Failure PSLV-XL - CMS1 (17th at 10:11) Success Soyuz - OneWeb 4 (18th at 12:26:26) Success Falcon 9 - NROL-108 (19th at 14:00) Success Long March 8 - XJY 7 (22nd at 04:37:37) Success Long March 4C - Yaogan 33 (27th at 15:$4) Success Soyuz - CSO 2 (29th at 16:42:07) Success January Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 December 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 96 96 GA 11 22 37 49 119 B 1 47 37 44 129 C 55 159 518 475 7 1,214 Start 38 158 1,124 2,207 369 3,896 Stub 8 248 2,175 225 2,656 List 14 130 78 208 430 Category 1,027 1,027 Disambig 47 47 File 196 196 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,121 1,121 Template 492 492 Other 27 1 28 Assessed 126 541 2,050 5,169 3,124 602 11,612 Unassessed 43 43 Total 126 541 2,050 5,169 3,124 645 11,655 Monthly Changes 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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Thank you for your work in Project Spaceflight

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		We appreciate the work you do on private space companies and look forward to your next articles/edits! Neopeius (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello @Neopeius, thanks for the award patch! It has been 3 years since this appreciation message of yours, but I'm glad that you find my spaceflight articles/edits really benefits all of us. I'll do my best this year to see if I could further improve it. ^_^ LengthyMer (talk) 14:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome! Keep it up. :) --Neopeius (talk) 13:18, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

The Downlink – January 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 January 2021 — 31 January 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 4
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In the News! 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.
Article of the month. Pete Conrad Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – 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.	Image of the month. 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.
Members New Members: Tell284 (Joined on the 10th January) N828335 (Joined on the 12th January) Alpacaaviator (Joined on the 13th January) BugWarp (Joined on the 18th January) Jogesh 69 (Joined on the 23rd January) giolibreak (Joined on the 24th January) Jared.h.wood (Joined on the 25th January) Number of active members: 98. Total number of members: 308. January Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Türksat 5A (8th at 02:15) Success LauncherOne – ELaNa-20 (17th at 19:38:51) Success Long March 3B/E – Tiantong 1-03 (19th at 16:25) Success Electron (rocket) – Another One Leaves the Crust (20th at 07:26) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L16 (20th at 13:02) Success Falcon 9 – Transporter 1 (24th at 13:02) Success Long March 4C – Yaogan 31-02 (29th at 04:47) Success February Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 January 2021 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 96 96 GA 11 22 37 51 121 B 1 48 37 43 129 C 55 159 523 483 7 1,227 Start 38 159 1,122 2,203 371 3,893 Stub 7 245 2,175 225 2,652 List 14 131 78 209 432 Category 1,029 1,029 Disambig 47 47 File 197 197 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,120 1,120 Template 493 493 Other 32 32 Assessed 126 543 2,050 5,175 3,132 603 11,629 Unassessed 1 48 49 Total 126 543 2,050 5,176 3,132 651 11,678 Monthly Changes 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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		1 February 2021 — 28 February 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 5
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In the News! 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.
Article of the month. Mars Pathfinder 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.	Image of the month. The first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, on Perseverance.
Members New Members: Acronymical (Joined on the 11th February) RedemptionVision (Joined on the 12th February) Yitzilitt (Joined on the 12th February) Number of active members: 100. Total number of members: 313. February Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Hyperbola-1 – Multi-payload (1st at 08:15) Failure Soyuz-2.1b – Lotos S1 (2st at 20:45:28) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18 (4st at 06:19) Success Long March 3B/E – TJS 6 (4st at 15:36) Success Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P (15st at 04:45:05) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 (16st at 03:59:37) Success Antares 230+ – NG-15 (20st at 17:36:50) Success Long March 4C – Yaogan 31 (24st at 02:22) Success PSLV – Amazônia-1 (28st at 04:53) Success Soyuz-2.1b – Arktika-M 1 (28st at 06:55:01) Success March Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 28 February 2021 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 36 52 121 B 1 48 37 43 129 C 55 160 527 489 7 1,238 Start 38 158 1,121 2,208 372 3,897] Stub 7 245 2,178 225 2,655 List 14 131 79 211 435 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 198 198 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,122 1,123 Template 493 493 Other 39 39 Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,193 3,148 604 11,667 Unassessed 1 54 55 Total 126 543 2,053 5,194 3,148 658 11,722 Monthly Changes 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

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 March 2021 — 31 March 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 6
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In the News! 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. Featured Content The Apollo 12 article was promoted to a Featured Article on March 27, 2021. After being nominated by Wehwalt who is a significant contributor to the article.
Article of the month. Hubble Space Telescope 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.	Image of the month. Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee is shown at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.
Members New Members: Bop34 (Joined on the 2nd March) Ninney (Rejoined on the 16th March) Askeuhd (Joined on the 22nd March) Ben MacTavish (Joined on the 27th March) Number of active members: 104. Total number of members: 316. March Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17 (4th at 08:24:54) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 (11th at 08:13:29) Success Long March 7A – 7A-Y2 (11th at 17:51:28) Success Long March 4C – 4C-Y42 (13th at 02:19) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L21 (14th at 10:01:26) Success Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500 1 (22nd at 06:07:12) Success Electron – "They Go Up So Fast" (22nd at 22:30) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L22 (24th at 08:28:24) Success Soyuz-2.1a – OneWeb 5 (25nd at 02:47:33) Success Long March 4C – 4C-Y36 (30th at 22:45) Success April Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 March 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 18 4 7 36 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 36 53 122 B 1 48 37 45 131 C 55 160 529 491 9 1,244 Start 38 158 1,118 2,223 374 3,911 Stub 6 245 2,185 227 2,663 List 14 130 79 211 434 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 199 199 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,123 1,124 Template 493 493 Other 37 37 Assessed 126 542 2,052 5,220 3,148 610 11,698 Unassessed 52 52 Total 126 542 2,052 5,220 3,148 662 11,750 Monthly Changes 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

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. 64.121.103.144 (talk) 20:24, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – May 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 April 2021 — 30 April 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 7
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In the News! 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 60th 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 17th, 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.
Article of the month. Michael Collins 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.	Image of the month. 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.
Members New Members: Anshuman~Potu~Tipu (Joined on the 1st April) DrifAssault (Joined on the 6th April) BeachFire (Joined on the 13th April) Wong Wei Hao (Joined on the 15th April) Canopyspaceadmirer (Joined on the 19th April) ThePolarcub (Joined on the 20th April) TheColourOfFear (Joined on the 27th April) StarshipSLS (Joined on the 29th April) Number of active members: 112. Total number of members: 325. April Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7th at 16:34:18) Success Long March 4B – Shiyan 6-02 (8th at 23:01) Success Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (9th at 07:42:40) Success Falcon 9 – Crew-2 (23rd at 22:14:08) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 6 (25th at 22:14:08) Success Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 (26th at 20:47) Success Long March 6 – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27th at 03:20) Success Vega – Pléiades Neo 3 (29th at 01:50:00) Success Long March 6 – Tianhe 1 (29th at 03:23:15) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29rd at 03:44) Success Long March 6 – Yaogan 34 (27th at 03:20) Success May Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 April 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 18 4 7 36 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 35 53 121 B 1 49 37 48 135 C 56 160 534 489 11 1,250 Start 37 158 1,115 2,235 373 3,918 Stub 7 244 2,191 226 2,668 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,131 1,131 Template 495 495 Other 38 38 Assessed 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 611 11,733 Unassessed 56 56 Total 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 667 11,789 Monthly Changes 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

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 May 2021 — 31 May 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2nd 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 4th 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 14th May. Featured Content 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 Neopeius & Hawkeye7. The image: "Buzz Aldrin.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by TheFreeWorld.
Article of the month. Katherine Johnson 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".	Image of the month. Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.
Members New Members: NightWolf1223 (Joined on the 13th May) LemonSlushie (Joined on the 13th May) Dulliman (Joined on the 22nd May) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Joined on the 29th May) Number of active members: 116. Total number of members: 329. May Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4th at 19:01:07) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6th at 18:11) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9th at 06:42) Success Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15th at 11:11) Failure Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15th at 22:56) Success Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18th at 17:37) Success Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19th at 04:03) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26th at 18:59) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28th at 17:38:39) Success Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29th at 12:55:29) Success June Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 May 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 4 7 37 FL 4 4 8 FM 98 98 GA 11 22 35 54 122 B 2 48 38 49 137 C 55 159 536 497 1 10 1,258 Start 37 158 1,112 2,238 372 3,917 Stub 7 245 2,190 231 2,673 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,034 1,034 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,133 1 1,135 Template 501 501 Other 1 38 39 Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,173 615 11,762 Unassessed 1 71 72 Total 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,174 686 11,834 Monthly Changes 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

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 June 2021 — 30 June 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 9
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
Featured Content! The Shuttle-Centaur article was promoted to Featured Article status on June 10, 2021. After being nominated by Hawkeye7. The Spaceflight before 1951 list was promoted to Featured List status on June 21, 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius. The image: "Timothy Peake, official portrait.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by 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 TheFreeWorld.
Article of the month. Lisa Nowak 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 Space Shuttle Discovery 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!	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 June 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 100 100 GA 11 24 34 54 123 B 2 48 39 52 141 C 55 159 544 509 1 10 1,278 Start 37 157 1,105 2,234 374 3,907 Stub 8 244 2,189 231 2,672 List 14 129 79 211 1 434 Category 1,032 1,032 Disambig 49 49 File 203 203 Portal 55 55 Project 68 68 Redirect 1 1 1,134 1 1,137 Template 501 501 Other 38 38 Assessed 126 545 2,055 5,261 3,181 617 11,785 Unassessed 1 76 77 Total 126 545 2,055 5,261 3,182 693 11,862
Image of the month. 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! Members New Members: Schujack (Joined on the 3rd June) Frozenprakash (Joined on the 7th June) Number of active members: 118. Total number of members: 331.
Monthly Changes 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

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 July 2021 — 31 July 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 10
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On 11th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity. On 17th 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 20th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule. On 26th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17th September 2001, just under 20 years ago. On 29th 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.
Article of the month. Shuttle-Centaur 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.	Image of the month. 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.
Members New Members: Itsfullofstars (Joined on the 10th July) James Denesuk (Joined on the 31st July) Number of active members: 120. Total number of members: 333. July Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1st at 12:48:33) Success Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3rd at 02:51) Success Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4th at 23:28) Success Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6th at 15:53) Success Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9th at 11:59) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19th at 00:19) Success Proton-M – Nauka (21st at 14:58:25) Success Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29th at 04:01) Success Electron – Monolith (29th at 06:00) Success Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30th at 21:00) Success August Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 July 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 11 24 34 54 123 B 2 48 40 52 142 C 56 160 545 510 12 1,283 Start 36 157 1,106 2,244 374 3,917 Stub 9 244 2,188 233 2,674 List 14 126 79 218 1 438 Category 1,032 1,032 Disambig 49 49 File 207 207 Portal 55 55 Project 68 68 Redirect 2 1 1 1,134 1 1,139 Template 501 501 Other 31 31 Assessed 126 546 2,058 5,278 3,179 621 11,808 Unassessed 3 1 74 78 Total 126 546 2,058 5,281 3,180 695 11,886 Monthly Changes Since June: 24 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 4 more files. There is 1 more B class article, 5 more C class articles, 10 more start class articles & 2 more stub class articles. The 2 additional FM class have been FM for a few years, they just registered this month.
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The Downlink – September 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 August 2021 — 31 August 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 11
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In the News! On 12th 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 20th August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station. On 28th 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.
Article of the month. Apollo 7 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 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham.	Image of the month. Official portrait of Ilan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Members New Members: Akrasia25 (Joined on the 21st August) Number of active members: 122. Total number of members: 335. August Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3rd at 07:39) Failure Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4th at 11:01) Success Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5th at 16:30:05) Success Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10th at 22:01:05) Success GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12th at 00:13) Failure Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17th at 01:47:06) Success Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18th at 22:32) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21st at 22:13:40) Success Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24th at 11:15) Success Long March 3B/E – TJSW-7 (24th at 15:41) Success Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28th at 22:35) Failure Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29th at 07:14:49) Success September Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Firefly Alpha – DREAM Long March 4C – Gaofen-5 02 Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 9B Ceres-1 – Fangzhou-2F (SPARK-02F) Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 10 Falcon 9 – Inspiration4 Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F Long March 7 – Tianzhou 3 Atlas V – Landsat 9 Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D Electron – BlackSky Falcon 9 – Starlink Long March 4C – Daqi-1 (Atmosphere-1) PSLV-XL – EOS-04 (RISAT-1A) Soyuz-2.1v – Razbeg №1 (Kosmos 2551)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 August 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 10 24 34 54 122 B 4 48 41 53 146 C 57 160 546 530 1,293 Start 34 157 1,106 2,262 374 3,933 Stub 9 244 2,197 1 234 2,685 List 14 124 79 225 1 443 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 1 49 50 File 206 206 Portal 55 55 Project 58 58 Redirect 2 1,140 1,142 Template 504 504 Other 22 22 Assessed 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 609 11,841 Unassessed 53 53 Total 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 662 11,894 Monthly Changes 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 Downlink – October 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 September 2021 — 31 October 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 12
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
Featured Content! The NASA Astronaut Group 2 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Hawkeye7. The Apollo 16 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Wehwalt. The Apollo 4 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Wehwalt. The 1951 in spaceflight list was promoted to Featured List status on 23 October 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius. The image: "Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on 19 October 2021. After being nominated by Artem.G.
Members New Members: No new members. Kilawyn Punx (Joined on the 5th September) CactiStaccingCrane (Joined on the 6th September) Rainclaw7 (Joined on the 15th September) KarenWrite (Joined on the 16th September) ColtHood08 (Joined on the 20th September) Number of active members: 127. Total number of members: 340. October Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-19 (5th at 08:55:02) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14th at 09:40:10) Success Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14th at 10:51) Success Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15th at 16:23:56) Success Atlas V – Lucy (16th at 09:34:00) Success Nuri – Dummy payload (21st at 08:00) Failure Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24th at 01:27:03) Success Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24th at 02:10) Success H-IIA – QZS-1R (26th at 02:19:37) Success Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27th at 06:19) Success Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (28th at 00:00:32) Success November Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – SpaceX Crew-3 Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A Rocket 3 – STP-27AD2 Epsilon – RAISE-2 Electron – BlackSky 10 Vega – CERES × 3 Falcon 9 – CSG-2 Atlas V – STPSat-6 Falcon 9 – DART Soyuz-2.1b – Prichal (Progress M-UM) Electron – BlackSky 12 Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-2 Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-3 RS1 – Orbital Test Range × 2 Soyuz-2.1a – Neitron №1	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 October 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 21 6 7 41 FL 2 4 4 10 FM 103 103 GA 11 27 36 54 128 B 4 47 40 56 147 C 58 159 560 587 1,364 Start 33 160 1,108 2,331 334 3,966 Stub 11 243 2,186 217 2,657 List 15 126 85 230 1 457 Category 1 1,042 1,043 Disambig 51 51 File 212 212 Portal 55 55 Project 59 59 Redirect 1 1,147 1,148 Template 505 505 Other 23 23 Assessed 128 553 2,082 5,457 3,197 552 11,969 Total 128 553 2,082 5,457 3,197 552 11,969 Monthly Changes 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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