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== The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 2 ==


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|The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight|<span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span>]] Newsletter
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|1 November 2020 &mdash; 30 November 2020
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!colspan=2 bgcolor=black style="color:white; padding:5px;"|Volume 2 &mdash; Issue 2
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|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''In the News!'''''</span>
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*The [[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 [[History of Wikipedia|longer then]] Wikipedia has existed.
*[[Crew-1]] successfully launched from [[LC-39A]] on 16<sup>th</sup> November 2020, at 00:11:15 (UTC). Later, on 17<sup>th</sup> November 2020, 04:00 (UTC) [[Michael S. Hopkins]], [[Victor J. Glover]], [[Soichi Noguchi]] and [[Shannon Walker]] joined [[Expedition 64]] and the crew of [[Soyuz MS-17|MS-17]] on the ISS.
*[[Arianespace]] had a launch failure after liftoff of its [[Vega (rocket)|Vega]] rocket on the 17<sup>th</sup> November. Two satellites were lost due to an integration error of the fourth stage.
|-
|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;">'''[[Apollo 12]]'''</div>
[[File:Surveyor 3-Apollo 12.jpg|right|200px]]
'''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 [[Pete Conrad|Charles "Pete" Conrad]] and [[Apollo Lunar Module]] Pilot [[Alan Bean|Alan L. Bean]] performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot [[Richard F. Gordon Jr.|Richard F. Gordon]] remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the [[Ocean of Storms]].
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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[[File:STS-97 ISS.jpg|250px|right]]
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.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:
*{{noping|Springfield2020}} (Joined on the 2<sup>nd</sup> November)
*{{noping|Helwr}} (Joined on the 12<sup>th</sup> November)
*{{noping|Hportfacts5}} (Joined on the 28<sup>th</sup> November)
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 94.
Total number of members: 298.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''November Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC.</span>
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#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Falcon 9 Block 5|Falcon 9]] - GPS 3 SV04 (5<sup>th</sup> at 23:24:23) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 6]] - ÑuSat 9-18 (6<sup>th</sup> at 3:19) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Galactic Energy|Ceres-1]] - Tianqi-11 (7<sup>th</sup> at 7:12) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|India}} [[PSLV-DL]] - EOS 1 (7<sup>th</sup> at 9:41 {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 3B]] - Tiantong 1-02 (12<sup>th</sup> at 15:59:04) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Atlas 5]] - NROL-101 (13<sup>th</sup> at 22:32) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} {{Space icon|c}} Falcon 9 - [[Crew-1]] (16<sup>th</sup> at 00:27:17) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|France}} [[Vega (rocket)|Vega]] - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17<sup>th</sup> at 01:52:20) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Electron (rocket)|Electron]] - "Return to Sender" (20<sup>th</sup> at 01:44) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21<sup>st</sup> at 17:71:08) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 5]] - Chang’e 5 (23<sup>rd</sup> at 20:30:12) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25<sup>th</sup> at 02:13:12) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Japan}} [[H-IIA]] - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29<sup>th</sup> 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: '''[[2020 in spaceflight#December|here]]'''.</span>
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*[[Soyuz-2#Soyuz-2.1a|Soyuz]] - Falcon Eye 2
*[[Soyuz-2#Soyuz-2.1b|Soyuz]] - Gonets M
*Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21
*[[Long March 11]] - GECAM
*Falcon 9 - Turksat 5A
*Soyuz - Progress 77P
*[[Angara (rocket family)#Angara A5|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
}}
|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"
|-
!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
|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'''
|-
|{{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'''
|-
|{{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}}||||||||
|63||
|'''63'''
|-
|{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|1,116||
|'''1,116'''
|-
|{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_articles}}||||||||
|491||
|'''491'''
|-
|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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|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="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<sup>st</sup>, and started to gather lunar samples.
*The Chang’e 5 ascent module launched from the moons surface on December 3<sup>rd</sup> 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<sup>th</sup> 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<sup>th</sup>.
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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;">'''[[Mary Jackson (engineer)|Mary Jackson]]'''</div>
[[File:Mary_Jackson_1979_Portrait_(LRC-1979-B701_P-07085).jpg|right|200px]]
'''Mary Jackson''' ([[Given name#Name at birth|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 [[human computer|computer]] at [[Racial segregation in the United States|the segregated]] [[West Area Computers|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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[[File:Apollo 11 Lunar Lander - 5927 NASA.jpg|250px|right]]
With China becoming the third country to return moon samples back to earth, this is an image of the [[Apollo 11]] [[Apollo Lunar Module|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.
|-
|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<sup>th</sup> December)
*{{noping|XFalcon2004x}} (Joined on the 16<sup>th</sup> December)
*{{noping|PythosIsAwesome}} (Joined on the 17<sup>th</sup> 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-2#Soyuz-2.1a|Soyuz]] - Falcon Eye 2 (2<sup>nd</sup> at 01:33:28) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Soyuz-2#Soyuz-2.1b|Soyuz]] - [[Gonets-M]] (3<sup>rd</sup> at 01:14:36) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} {{Space icon|m}} [[Chang'e 5]] (3<sup>rd</sup> at 15:10) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 3B]] - Gaofen 14 (6<sup>th</sup> at 03:58) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Falcon 9 Block 5|Falcon 9]] - SpaceX CRS 21 (6<sup>th</sup> at 15:17:08) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 11]] - GECAM (9<sup>th</sup> at 20:14) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Delta 4 Heavy]] - NROL 44 (11<sup>th</sup> at 1:09) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - SXM 7 (13<sup>th</sup> at 17:20) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Angara (rocket family)#Angara A5|Angara A5]] - Test Flight (14<sup>th</sup> at 5:50:00) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Electron (rocket)|Electron]] - The Owl's Night Begins (15<sup>th</sup> at 10:09:27) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Rockets_by_Astra#Rocket_3|Rocket 3]] - Test Flight (15<sup>th</sup> at 20:55) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{flagicon|India}} [[PSLV-XL]] - CMS1 (17<sup>th</sup> at 10:11) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz - OneWeb 4 (18<sup>th</sup> at 12:26:26) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - NROL-108 (19<sup>th</sup> at 14:00) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 8]] - XJY 7 (22<sup>nd</sup> at 04:37:37) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 4C]] - Yaogan 33 (27<sup>th</sup> at 15:$4) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Soyuz-2#Soyuz-2.1a|Soyuz]] - CSO 2 (29<sup>th</sup> 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: [[2021 in spaceflight#January|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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight|<span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span>]] Newsletter
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|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="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.
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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;">'''[[Pete Conrad]]'''</div>
[[File:Charles Conrad (S64-31465).jpg|right|180px]]
'''Charles''' "'''Pete'''" '''Conrad Jr.''' (June 2, 1930&nbsp;– July 8, 1999) was an American [[NASA]] [[astronaut]], [[aeronautical engineer]], [[United States Navy|naval officer]] and [[United States Naval Aviator|aviator]], [[test pilot]], and commanded the [[Apollo 12]] space mission, on which he became the [[List of people who have walked on the Moon|third person to walk on the Moon]]. Conrad was selected in NASA's [[NASA Astronaut Group 2|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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[[File:S-IC engines and Von Braun.jpg|right|200px]]

This is an image of [[Wernher von Braun|Dr. von Braun]] standing infront of the five F-1 engines of the [[SA-500D|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.
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|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<sup>th</sup> January)
*{{noping|N828335}} (Joined on the 12<sup>th</sup> January)
*{{noping|Alpacaaviator}} (Joined on the 13<sup>th</sup> January)
*{{noping|BugWarp}} (Joined on the 18<sup>th</sup> January)
*{{noping|Jogesh 69}} (Joined on the 23<sup>rd</sup> January)
*{{noping|giolibreak}} (Joined on the 24<sup>th</sup> January)
*{{noping|Jared.h.wood}} (Joined on the 25<sup>th</sup> 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 Block 5|Falcon 9]] – [[Türksat 5A]] (8<sup>th</sup> at 02:15) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[LauncherOne]] – [[ELaNa]]-20 (17<sup>th</sup> at 19:38:51) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 3B/E]] – [[Tiantong (Satellite)|Tiantong 1-03]] (19<sup>th</sup> at 16:25) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|NZ}} [[Electron (rocket)]] – Another One Leaves the Crust {{nobreak|(20<sup>th</sup> at 07:26) {{Space icon|s}}}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – [[Starlink]] V1.0-L16 (20<sup>th</sup> at 13:02) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Transporter 1 (24<sup>th</sup> at 13:02) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 4C]] – [[Yaogan]] 31-02 (29<sup>th</sup> 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: [[2021 in spaceflight (January–June)#February|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 (rocket)|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 increase of 13 articles at C class.
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== The Downlink – March 2021 ==


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|The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight|<span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span>]] Newsletter
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|1 February 2021 &mdash; 28 February 2021  
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 2 &mdash; Issue 5
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|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"|[[WP:SPF|Spaceflight Project]]{{•}}[[WT:SPACEFLIGHT|Project discussion]]{{•}}[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Members|Members]]{{•}}[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Assessment|Assessment]]{{•}}[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Open tasks|Open tasks]]{{•}}[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Popular pages|Popular pages]]{{•}}[[WP:DNL|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 [[Hope orbiter]] reached mars on 9 February 2021. Seven months after its launch on 19 July 2020.
*Confirmation of the [[Perseverance (rover)|Perseverance]] rover successfully landing on Mars was recieved at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. With the '''[[:File:Perseverance's first photo.jpg|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>
[[File:Mars Pathfinder Lander preparations.jpg|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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[[File:Mastcam-Z's First 360-Degree Panorama.jpg|400px|center]]
The first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, on [[Perseverance (rover)|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<sup>th</sup> February)
*{{noping|RedemptionVision}} (Joined on the 12<sup>th</sup> February)
*{{noping|Yitzilitt}} (Joined on the 12<sup>th</sup> 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<sup>st</sup> at 08:15) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Soyuz-2.1b]] – Lotos S1 (2<sup>st</sup> at 20:45:28) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Falcon 9 Block 5|Falcon 9]] – Starlink V1.0-L18 (4<sup>st</sup> at 06:19) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 3B/E]] – TJS 6 (4<sup>st</sup> at 15:36) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Soyuz-2.1a]] – [[Progress MS-16|Progress 77P]] (15<sup>st</sup> at 04:45:05) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 (16<sup>st</sup> at 03:59:37) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Antares 230+]] – [[Cygnus NG-15|NG-15]] (20<sup>st</sup> at 17:36:50) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 4C]] – [[Yaogan|Yaogan 31]] (24<sup>st</sup> at 02:22) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|India}} PSLV – [[Amazônia-1]] (28<sup>st</sup> at 04:53) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1b – Arktika-M 1 (28<sup>st</sup> 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: [[2021 in spaceflight#Orbital and suborbital launches|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 (rocket)|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
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!rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom"|'''Quality'''
!colspan="7"|'''Importance'''
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!{{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_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'''
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|{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||[https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Spaceflight/articles?quality=B-Class&importance=Top-Class 1]
||[https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Spaceflight/articles?quality=B-Class&importance=High-Class 48]
||[https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Spaceflight/articles?quality=B-Class&importance=Mid-Class 37]
||[https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Spaceflight/articles?quality=B-Class&importance=Low-Class 43]
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||
||'''[https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Spaceflight/articles?quality=B-Class 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'''
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|{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||1||||54||'''55'''
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|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="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 2 &mdash; Issue 6
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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. [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-hubble-space-telescope-set-to-resume-science-operations 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>
[[File:HST-SM4.jpeg|200px|right]]
The '''Hubble Space Telescope''' was launched into [[low Earth orbit]] in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the [[Orbiting Solar Observatory|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 program|Great Observatories]].
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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[[File:Roger B. Chaffee at a console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.jpg|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<sup>nd</sup> March)
*{{noping|Ninney}} (Rejoined on the 16<sup>th</sup> March)
*{{noping|Askeuhd}} (Joined on the 22<sup>nd</sup> March)
*{{noping|Ben MacTavish}} (Joined on the 27<sup>th</sup> 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 Block 5|Falcon 9]] – Starlink V1.0-L17 (4<sup>th</sup> at 08:24:54) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 (11<sup>th</sup> at 08:13:29) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 7A]] – 7A-Y2 (11<sup>th</sup> at 17:51:28) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} [[Long March 4C]] – 4C-Y42 (13<sup>th</sup> at 02:19) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L21 (14<sup>th</sup> at 10:01:26) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Soyuz-2.1a]] – CAS500 1 (22<sup>nd</sup> at 06:07:12) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|NZ}} [[Rocket Lab Electron|Electron]] – "They Go Up So Fast" (22<sup>nd</sup> at 22:30) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L22 (24<sup>th</sup> at 08:28:24) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a – [[OneWeb]] 5 (25<sup>nd</sup> at 02:47:33) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C – 4C-Y36 (30<sup>th</sup> 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: [[2021 in spaceflight#Orbital and suborbital launches|here]].</span>
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*[[Falcon 9 Block 5|Falcon 9]] – Starlink V1.0-L23
*[[Soyuz-2.1a]] – [[Soyuz MS-18]]
*[[GSLV Mk II]] – [[GISAT]] 1
*[[Vega (rocket)|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'''
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!{{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_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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== 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 Cosmodrome|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<sup>th</sup> 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#Starship_Human_Landing_System|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 (cosmonaut)|Sergey Ryzhikov]], [[Sergey Kud-Sverchkov]], [[Kathleen Rubins]] mission of 184 days and 23 hours.
* Also on the 17<sup>th</sup>, [[Expedition 64]] on the ISS ended marking the start of [[Expedition 65]].
* On April 19, the Mars helicopter [[Ingenuity (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 (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]''''' who was the [[Apollo Command Module]] pilot, dies on April 28, 2021 aged 90.
* On April 29, China launched a ''[[Tianhe (space station module)|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 (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]'''</div>
[[File:Michael Collins (S69-31742, restoration).jpg|150px|right]]
'''Michael Collins''' was an American [[astronaut]] who flew the [[Apollo 11]] [[Command Module Columbia|command module ''Columbia'']]  around the [[Moon]] in 1969 while his crewmates, [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Buzz Aldrin]], made the first crewed landing on the [[Moon's surface|surface]]. He was selected as part of [[NASA]]'s [[Astronaut Group 3|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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[[File:Earth Day Flag.png|250px|right]]
The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "''[[:File:The Blue Marble 4463x4163.jpg|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<sup>st</sup> April)
*{{noping|DrifAssault}} (Joined on the 6<sup>th</sup> April)
*{{noping|BeachFire}} (Joined on the 13<sup>th</sup> April)
*{{noping|Wong Wei Hao}} (Joined on the 15<sup>th</sup> April)
*{{noping|Canopyspaceadmirer}} (Joined on the 19<sup>th</sup> April)
*{{noping|ThePolarcub}} (Joined on the 20<sup>th</sup> April)
*{{noping|TheColourOfFear}} (Joined on the 27<sup>th</sup> April)
*{{noping|StarshipSLS}} (Joined on the 29<sup>th</sup> 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 Block 5|Falcon 9]] – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7<sup>th</sup> at 16:34:18) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Long March 4B]] – Shiyan 6-02 (8<sup>th</sup> at 23:01) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} {{Space icon|c}} [[Soyuz-2.1a]] – [[Soyuz MS-18|MS-18]] (9<sup>th</sup> at 07:42:40) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} {{Space icon|c}} Falcon 9 – [[SpaceX Crew-2|Crew-2]] (23<sup>rd</sup> at 22:14:08) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Soyuz-2.1b]] – OneWeb 6 (25<sup>th</sup> at 22:14:08) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Delta IV Heavy]] – NROL-82 (26<sup>th</sup> at 20:47) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Long March 6]] – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27<sup>th</sup> at 03:20) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|EU}} [[Vega (rocket)|Vega]] – Pléiades Neo 3 (29<sup>th</sup> at 01:50:00) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Long March 6]] – Tianhe 1 (29<sup>th</sup> at 03:23:15) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29<sup>rd</sup> at 03:44) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Long March 6]] – Yaogan 34 (27<sup>th</sup> 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: [[2021 in spaceflight#Orbital and suborbital launches|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
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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 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'''
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|{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||202||||'''202'''
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|{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||||||||||55||||'''55'''
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|{{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'''
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|{{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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== St Neots  History ==

I hope you don't mind this approach.

I have taken it on myself to try to improve the St Neots / Eynesbury / Eaton Socon pages. In doing so I find the History of St Neots article, the core of which was written by yourself some considerable time ago. I am sincere when I say that your work is well written and clear, but it has been tagged for lack of citations.

Much of the material you have written seems not to come from the obvious sources, and yet some of it seems unlikely to have simply come from your background knowledge withotu any reference book.

Can you help me to track down some sources for your text, please? [[User:Afterbrunel|Afterbrunel]] ([[User talk:Afterbrunel|talk]]) 07:38, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

: {{reply to|Afterbrunel}} As you will have seen, my edits go way, way back to a time before Wikipedia developed policies about references - it was a bit of a free-for-all in those days! Much of what I wrote was just from what I knew personally and I have no reference sources to offer you. I appreciate your efforts with the article though, thanks so much for the work you are doing. Probably best to regard anything I wrote as either hearsay or original research (ie jumping to my own conclusions - otherwise known as guessing). [[User:Chrisjj|Chris Jefferies]] ([[User talk:Chrisjj#top|talk]]) 15:43, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

:: Oh no! that's a shame. Of course, we've all been tempted to write some material that we know 100% is true but we can't reference it.
:: I am planning to transfer some historical material that appears in the ordinary St Neots page into the History of St Neots article; the idea being that there are two quite different audiences, for "Is there a cinema?" on the one hand, and "Who was this bloke Neot?" on the other.
:: Well, hats off to you for what you did in the past, and wish me luck now.
:: Kindest regards [[User:Afterbrunel|Afterbrunel]] ([[User talk:Afterbrunel|talk]]) 13:10, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

::: {{reply to|Afterbrunel}} The article is looking far better than last time I checked so kudos to you for whatever part of that was your doing :-) And yes, hope it goes really well for you, grace and peace to you and have fun editing.
== The Downlink – June 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 Crew of [[SpaceX Crew-1]] had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2<sup>nd</sup> 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<sup>th</sup> 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)|Zhurong rover]] on Mars on 14<sup>th</sup> May.
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Featured Content'''''</span>
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*The [[Apollo 7]] article was featured as ''[[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 16, 2021|Today's featured article]]'' on May 16, 2021.
*The [[Lisa Nowak]] article was '''[[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/May 2021#Lisa Nowak|promoted]]''' to ''Featured Article'' status on May 6, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Neopeius}} & {{noping|Hawkeye7}}.
*The image: "[[:File:Buzz Aldrin.jpg|Buzz Aldrin.jpg]]" was '''[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/May-2021#Buzz Aldrin|promoted]]''' to ''Featured Media'' status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|TheFreeWorld}}.
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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;">'''[[Katherine Johnson]]'''</div>
[[File:Katherine Johnson 1983.jpg|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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[[File:Clayton Anderson zero g.jpg|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<sup>th</sup> May)
*{{noping|LemonSlushie}} (Joined on the 13<sup>th</sup> May)
*{{noping|Dulliman}} (Joined on the 22<sup>nd</sup> May)
*{{noping|The Unsinkable Molly Brown}} (Joined on the 29<sup>th</sup> 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 Block 5|Falcon 9]] – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4<sup>th</sup> at 19:01:07) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Long March 2C]] – Yaogan 30-08 (6<sup>th</sup> at 18:11) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9<sup>th</sup> at 06:42) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|NZ}} [[Rocket Lab Electron|Electron]] – "Running Out of Toes" (15<sup>th</sup> at 11:11) {{Space icon|f}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15<sup>th</sup> at 22:56) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} [[Atlas 5]] – [[SBIRS-GEO]] 5 (18<sup>th</sup> at 17:37) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Long March 4B]] – [[HY (satellite)|Haiyang]] 2D (19<sup>th</sup> at 04:03) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26<sup>th</sup> at 18:59) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Soyuz-2.1b]] – OneWeb 7 (28<sup>th</sup> at 17:38:39) {{Space icon|s}}
#{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Long March 7]] – [[Tianzhou 2]] (29<sup>th</sup> 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: [[2021 in spaceflight#Orbital and suborbital launches|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
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!rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom"|'''Quality'''
!colspan="7"|'''Importance'''
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!{{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
!{{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_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'''
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|style="text-align:center"|'''Other'''
||||||||1||38||||'''39'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
||126||543||2,053||5,252||3,173||615||'''11,762'''
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|{{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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!rowspan=2 style="padding:0px 2em; font-size:42px; text-align:left;"|The Downlink
|The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight|<span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span>]] Newsletter
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|1 June 2021 &mdash; 30 June 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;"|[[WP:SPF|Spaceflight Project]]{{•}}[[WT:SPACEFLIGHT|Project discussion]]{{•}}[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Members|Members]]{{•}}[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Assessment|Assessment]]{{•}}[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Open tasks|Open tasks]]{{•}}[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Popular pages|Popular pages]]{{•}}[[WP:DNL|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 '''[[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/June 2021#Shuttle-Centaur|promoted]]''' to ''Featured Article'' status on June 10, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Hawkeye7}}.
*The [[Spaceflight before 1951]] list was '''[[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/June 2021#Spaceflight before 1951|promoted]]''' to ''Featured List'' status on June 21, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Neopeius}}.
*The image: "[[:File:Timothy Peake, official portrait.jpg|Timothy Peake, official portrait.jpg]]" was '''[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/June-2021#Tim Peake|promoted]]''' to ''Featured Media'' status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|RoanokeVirginia}}.
*The image: "[[:File:Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg|Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg]]" was '''[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/June-2021#Ilan Ramon|promoted]]''' to ''Featured Media'' status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|TheFreeWorld}}.
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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;">'''[[Lisa Nowak]]'''</div>
[[File:Lisa M. Nowak.jpg|150px|right]]
'''Lisa Marie Nowak''' is an American [[aeronautical engineer]], and former [[NASA]] [[astronaut]] and [[United States Navy]] [[Captain (United States O-6)|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
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!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'''
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|{{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'''
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|{{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'''
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|style="text-align:center"|'''Other'''
||||||||||38||||'''38'''
|-
|{{Assessed-Class}}
||126||545||2,055||5,261||3,181||617||'''11,785'''
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|{{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'''
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''''Image of the month.'''''</span>
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[[File:Buzz Aldrin.jpg|150px|right]]
Offical portrait of [[Buzz Aldrin|Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.]] (Buzz Aldrin) who was the pilot on the [[Apollo 11]] mission.

''This image was promoted to featured status last month!''
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:
*{{noping|Schujack}} (Joined on the 3<sup>rd</sup> June)
*{{noping|Frozenprakash}} (Joined on the 7<sup>th</sup> 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]]'' & ''[[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Implementation of book namespace deletion|here]]'' for more.
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