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October 2020[edit]

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A cupcake for you![edit]

Welcome to Project Spaceflight! Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. :) Neopeius (talk) 01:04, 3 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Neopeius: Thank you! Springfield2020 (talk) 14:59, 4 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Schrop Intermediate School (Lakemore, Ohio) (November 15)[edit]

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Intermediate SChools are not considered notable at Wikipedia. unless there is something much more special than this.

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@DGG: Since the intermediate school does not qualify for its own article, would it be acceptable to merge it with the page about its school district, Springfield Local School District (Summit County)? Springfield2020 (talk) 15:25, 16 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It would be acceptable to include it in the list, with a line or two of information--not only acceptable, but the preferred way of handling them. DGG ( talk ) 20:04, 16 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@DGG: I'll move it over there, then. Thank you for taking the time to review my draft! Springfield2020 (talk) 14:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 2[edit]

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	1 November 2020 — 30 November 2020

Volume 2 — Issue 2

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

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 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.

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 2^nd November)
Helwr (Joined on the 12^th November)
Hportfacts5 (Joined on the 28^th 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 (5^th at 23:24:23) Success
Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 (6^th at 3:19) Success
Ceres-1 - Tianqi-11 (7^th at 7:12) Success
PSLV-DL - EOS 1 (7^th at 9:41 Success
Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 (12^th at 15:59:04) Success
Atlas 5 - NROL-101 (13^th at 22:32) Success
Falcon 9 - Crew-1 (16^th at 00:27:17) Success
Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17^th at 01:52:20) Failure
Electron - "Return to Sender" (20^th at 01:44) Success
Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21^st at 17:71:08) Success
Long March 5 - Chang’e 5 (23^rd at 20:30:12) Success
Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25^th at 02:13:12) Success
H-IIA - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29^th 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
Quality	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[edit]

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	1 December 2020 — 31 December 2020

Volume 2 — Issue 3

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

In the News!

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.

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 14^th December)
XFalcon2004x (Joined on the 16^th December)
PythosIsAwesome (Joined on the 17^th December)

Number of active members: 97. Total number of members: 301.

December Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 (2^nd at 01:33:28) Success
Soyuz - Gonets-M (3^rd at 01:14:36) Success
Chang'e 5 (3^rd at 15:10) Success
Long March 3B - Gaofen 14 (6^th at 03:58) Success
Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 (6^th at 15:17:08) Success
Long March 11 - GECAM (9^th at 20:14) Success
Delta 4 Heavy - NROL 44 (11^th at 1:09) Success
Falcon 9 - SXM 7 (13^th at 17:20) Success
Angara A5 - Test Flight (14^th at 5:50:00) Success
Electron - The Owl's Night Begins (15^th at 10:09:27) Success
Rocket 3 - Test Flight (15^th at 20:55) Failure
PSLV-XL - CMS1 (17^th at 10:11) Success
Soyuz - OneWeb 4 (18^th at 12:26:26) Success
Falcon 9 - NROL-108 (19^th at 14:00) Success
Long March 8 - XJY 7 (22^nd at 04:37:37) Success
Long March 4C - Yaogan 33 (27^th at 15:$4) Success
Soyuz - CSO 2 (29^th 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
Quality	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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Your submission at Articles for creation: Jim Isabella has been accepted[edit]

Jim Isabella, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

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@Devonian Wombat Thank you! Springfield2020 (talk) 14:30, 29 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Signpost: 31 January 2021[edit]

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The Downlink – January 2021[edit]

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

Volume 2 — Issue 4

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

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 10^th January)
N828335 (Joined on the 12^th January)
Alpacaaviator (Joined on the 13^th January)
BugWarp (Joined on the 18^th January)
Jogesh 69 (Joined on the 23^rd January)
giolibreak (Joined on the 24^th January)
Jared.h.wood (Joined on the 25^th January)

Number of active members: 98. Total number of members: 308.

January Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

Falcon 9 – Türksat 5A (8^th at 02:15) Success
LauncherOne – ELaNa-20 (17^th at 19:38:51) Success
Long March 3B/E – Tiantong 1-03 (19^th at 16:25) Success
Electron (rocket) – Another One Leaves the Crust (20^th at 07:26) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L16 (20^th at 13:02) Success
Falcon 9 – Transporter 1 (24^th at 13:02) Success
Long March 4C – Yaogan 31-02 (29^th 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
Quality	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[edit]

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	1 February 2021 — 28 February 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 5

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

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 11^th February)
RedemptionVision (Joined on the 12^th February)
Yitzilitt (Joined on the 12^th February)

Number of active members: 100. Total number of members: 313.

February Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

Hyperbola-1 – Multi-payload (1^st at 08:15) Failure
Soyuz-2.1b – Lotos S1 (2^st at 20:45:28) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18 (4^st at 06:19) Success
Long March 3B/E – TJS 6 (4^st at 15:36) Success
Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P (15^st at 04:45:05) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 (16^st at 03:59:37) Success
Antares 230+ – NG-15 (20^st at 17:36:50) Success
Long March 4C – Yaogan 31 (24^st at 02:22) Success
PSLV – Amazônia-1 (28^st at 04:53) Success
Soyuz-2.1b – Arktika-M 1 (28^st 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
Quality	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[edit]

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

Volume 2 — Issue 6

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

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 2^nd March)
Ninney (Rejoined on the 16^th March)
Askeuhd (Joined on the 22^nd March)
Ben MacTavish (Joined on the 27^th 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 (4^th at 08:24:54) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 (11^th at 08:13:29) Success
Long March 7A – 7A-Y2 (11^th at 17:51:28) Success
Long March 4C – 4C-Y42 (13^th at 02:19) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L21 (14^th at 10:01:26) Success
Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500 1 (22^nd at 06:07:12) Success
Electron – "They Go Up So Fast" (22^nd at 22:30) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L22 (24^th at 08:28:24) Success
Soyuz-2.1a – OneWeb 5 (25^nd at 02:47:33) Success
Long March 4C – 4C-Y36 (30^th 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
Quality	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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The Downlink – May 2021[edit]

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

Volume 1 — Issue 7

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

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 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.

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 1^st April)
DrifAssault (Joined on the 6^th April)
BeachFire (Joined on the 13^th April)
Wong Wei Hao (Joined on the 15^th April)
Canopyspaceadmirer (Joined on the 19^th April)
ThePolarcub (Joined on the 20^th April)
TheColourOfFear (Joined on the 27^th April)
StarshipSLS (Joined on the 29^th 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 (7^th at 16:34:18) Success
Long March 4B – Shiyan 6-02 (8^th at 23:01) Success
Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (9^th at 07:42:40) Success
Falcon 9 – Crew-2 (23^rd at 22:14:08) Success
Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 6 (25^th at 22:14:08) Success
Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 (26^th at 20:47) Success
Long March 6 – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27^th at 03:20) Success
Vega – Pléiades Neo 3 (29^th at 01:50:00) Success
Long March 6 – Tianhe 1 (29^th at 03:23:15) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29^rd at 03:44) Success
Long March 6 – Yaogan 34 (27^th 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
Quality	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[edit]

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	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 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.

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 13^th May)
LemonSlushie (Joined on the 13^th May)
Dulliman (Joined on the 22^nd May)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Joined on the 29^th 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 (4^th at 19:01:07) Success
Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6^th at 18:11) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9^th at 06:42) Success
Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15^th at 11:11) Failure
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15^th at 22:56) Success
Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18^th at 17:37) Success
Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19^th at 04:03) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26^th at 18:59) Success
Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28^th at 17:38:39) Success
Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29^th 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
Quality	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[edit]

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	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
Quality	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 3^rd June)
Frozenprakash (Joined on the 7^th 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.

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The Downlink – August 2021[edit]

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	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 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.

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 10^th July)
James Denesuk (Joined on the 31^st 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 (1^st at 12:48:33) Success
Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3^rd at 02:51) Success
Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4^th at 23:28) Success
Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6^th at 15:53) Success
Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9^th at 11:59) Success
Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19^th at 00:19) Success
Proton-M – Nauka (21^st at 14:58:25) Success
Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29^th at 04:01) Success
Electron – Monolith (29^th at 06:00) Success
Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30^th 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
Quality	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 – August 2021[edit]

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	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 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.

Article of the month.

Shuttle-Centaur

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 10^th July)
James Denesuk (Joined on the 31^st 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 (1^st at 12:48:33) Success
Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3^rd at 02:51) Success
Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4^th at 23:28) Success
Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6^th at 15:53) Success
Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9^th at 11:59) Success
Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19^th at 00:19) Success
Proton-M – Nauka (21^st at 14:58:25) Success
Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29^th at 04:01) Success
Electron – Monolith (29^th at 06:00) Success
Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30^th 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
Quality	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

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The Downlink – September 2021[edit]

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

Volume 1 — Issue 11

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

In the News!

On 12^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^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^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.

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 21^st August)

Number of active members: 122. Total number of members: 335.

August Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3^rd at 07:39) Failure
Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4^th at 11:01) Success
Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5^th at 16:30:05) Success
Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10^th at 22:01:05) Success
GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12^th at 00:13) Failure
Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17^th at 01:47:06) Success
Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18^th at 22:32) Success
Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21^st at 22:13:40) Success
Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24^th at 11:15) Success
Long March 3B/E – TJSW-7 (24^th at 15:41) Success
Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28^th at 22:35) Failure
Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29^th 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
Quality	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 Signpost: 26 September 2021[edit]

News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans

In the media: The future of Wikipedia

Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned

Op-Ed: I've been desysopped

Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021[edit]

From the editor: Different stories, same place

News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded

In the media: China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?

Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process

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Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

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The Downlink – October 2021[edit]

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	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 5^th September)
CactiStaccingCrane (Joined on the 6^th September)
Rainclaw7 (Joined on the 15^th September)
KarenWrite (Joined on the 16^th September)
ColtHood08 (Joined on the 20^th 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 (5^th at 08:55:02) Success
Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14^th at 09:40:10) Success
Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14^th at 10:51) Success
Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15^th at 16:23:56) Success
Atlas V – Lucy (16^th at 09:34:00) Success
Nuri – Dummy payload (21^st at 08:00) Failure
Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24^th at 01:27:03) Success
Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24^th at 02:10) Success
H-IIA – QZS-1R (26^th at 02:19:37) Success
Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27^th at 06:19) Success
Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (28^th 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
Quality	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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