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Precious anniversary

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:Time really flies. Thank you Gerda. - Indefensible (talk) 18:48, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

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''Downlink'' special issues notice

Hello! This is an announcement that The Downlink has been revived. Rather than simply start again, I have chosen to create two special issues recapping the past three years. The first special issue spans November 2021 to December 2023, while the second special issue spans January 2024 to December 2024.

Due to the size of these pages, as well as the fact that they are non-standard issues, I have instead had this notice sent out. The following issues of volume 3 (Jan - Dec 2025) should be significantly smaller.

Please be aware that, for a variety of reasons, the issues that I create may be published late.

Here are the issues:

First special issue

Second special issue

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''The Downlink'' Volume 3, Issue 1

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|The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter

2025
1 – 31 January

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{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}\|WikiProject Spaceflight	class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"}} border=1 width=100% style="border:2px solid black; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#FFFAF0;" !colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"\|Volume 3 — Issue 1
colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"\|Spaceflight Project{{•}}Project discussion{{•}}Members{{•}}Assessment{{•}}Open tasks{{•}}Popular pages{{•}}The Downlink
colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Introduction to Volume 3 ---- :Initially launched in late 2010/early 2011 for a run of four months, The Downlink was unpublished for more than nine years, after which a second volume was published from October 2020 to October 2021. This second volume was very different from the first volume, both in style and structure. A December issue was planned (for some reason, the second volume became volume 1 in April 2021), but was never finished. Like with volume 2, this volume 3 was intended to come with changes, though primarily to style. :Volume 3 will not feature any significant changes to style or structure. This both provides continuity with the previous volume and allows the contributors to construct each issue relatively easily. However, following volumes may see changes to style, format, and upload schedule. As it is still very early in the year, a discussion on this is not yet necessary, but suggestions of all kinds are always welcome at the talk page.
colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|In the News ---- Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Hakuto-R Mission 2 were launched from Kennedy Space Center on 15 January. They are planned to land in March and April, respectively. On 30 January, Sunita Williams broke Peggy Whitson's record for most time spent on spacewalks by a woman, at 62 hours and 6 minutes total. ISRO successfully docked two SpaDeX satellites on 16 January, making India the fourth country (including the EU) to dock two vehicles in space. Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle completed its maiden flight on 16 January. The payload was successfully placed in orbit, while the first staged failed to land on the recovery ship.
colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Featured Content ---- The image Jupiter clouds was promoted to Featured Media status on 4 January. It was nominated by {{noping\|MER-C}}.
width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Article of the Month* ---- Soyuz programme {{Excerpt\|Soyuz programme\|references=no\|hat=no}} \|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Image of the Month* ---- Gene Cernan on the Moon File:Apollo 17 Cernan on moon.jpg Gene Cernan was the eleventh and (as of 2025) last person to ever step foot on the moon. In addition to being an astronaut, he was an aviator in the US Navy and engineer. Apollo 17 was his second Apollo mission, as he served as Apollo 10's lunar module pilot. He died in Houston on 16 January, 2017. He was the first astronaut to be buried at Texas State Cemetery.
style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Members ---- New members: {{noping\|Joost van Assenbergh}} (9 January) {{noping\|TheCosmicNebula}} (25 January) {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\|Number of active members: 200. Total number of members: 426.}} ---- Launches All times stated here are in UTC. For a complete list, see here: List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_January–June_2025#January. ---- {{Flag icon\|USA}} New Glenn — DarkSky-1 (16 Jan. at 07:03) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flag icon\|USA}} SpaceX Starship — 10 Starlink simulators (16 Jan. at 22:37) ({{Color\|red\|launch failure}}) \|width=50% style="padding:5px;"\|Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 January 2025. ---- {\| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" \| Quality ! colspan="7" \| Importance
{{Top-Class\|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{High-Class\|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Mid-Class\|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Low-Class\|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}} ! {{Unknown-Class\|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! style="text-align: center;" \| Total
{{FA-Class\|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	7	28	14	8			57
{{FL-Class\|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		3	4	4			11
{{FM-Class\|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					123		123
{{A-Class\|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	1		2	2			5
{{GA-Class\|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	11	27	34	55		1	128
{{B-Class\|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	15	83	201	217		1	517
{{C-Class\|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	43	161	574	754		29	1,561
{{Start-Class\|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	18	146	1,022	2,558		434	4,178
{{Stub-Class\|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		9	203	2,052		243	2,507
{{List-Class\|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	10	116	108	236	1	26	497
{{Category-Class\|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					1,228		1,228
{{Disambig-Class\|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					47		47
{{File-Class\|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					223		223
{{Portal-Class\|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					55		55
{{Project-Class\|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					109		109
{{Redirect-Class\|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}		1	42	131	1,238		1,412
{{Template-Class\|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					525		525
{{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					5		5
style="text-align: center;" \| Other					39		39
{{Assessed-Class}}	105	574	2,204	6,017	3,593	734	13,227
{{Unassessed-Class\|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}				19		133	152
style="text-align: center;" \| Total	105	574	2,204	6,036	3,593	867	13,379

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Since December 2024, five new high-importance, eight new mid-importance, forty new low-importance, and 1,522 new NA-importance articles have been created. Fifteen unknown-importance articles have been removed, for a total of 1,560 more articles. One article has been promoted to Good Article status. There are also three more B-class articles, eleven more C-class articles, 23 more Start-class articles, four more Stub-class articles, 4 more lists, and 34 more files.

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Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:19, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

''The Downlink'' Volume 3, Issue 2

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|The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter

2025
1 — 28 February

colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" \| Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}\|WikiProject Spaceflight	class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"}} border=1 width=100% style="border:2px solid black; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#FFFAF0;" !colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"\|Volume 3 — Issue 2
colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"\|Spaceflight Project{{•}}Project discussion{{•}}Members{{•}}Assessment{{•}}Open tasks{{•}}Popular pages{{•}}The Downlink
colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|In the News ---- On 17 February, as part of a Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission, Intuitive Machines' lunar lander IM-2 was launched on board a Falcon 9. It was also launched with Lunar Trailblazer and Brokkr-2. The European Space Agency's space telescope INTEGRAL was retired on 28 February after 22 years, five months, and one day. It is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in 2029.
width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Article of the month* ---- Family Portrait (Voyager) {{Excerpt\|Family Portrait (Voyager)\|references=no\|hat=no}} \|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Image of the month* ---- STS-98 following liftoff File:Atlantis launch plume edit.jpg Launched on 7 February 2001, STS-98 delivered to the Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station. Flown by Atlantis, it was the first human spaceflight mission of the 21st century. The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base on 20 February after being docked with the ISS for almost seven days. The crew consisted of Kenneth Cockrell, commander, Mark L. Polansky, pilot, Robert Curbeam, mission specialist 1, Marsha Ivins, mission specialist 2 and flight engineer, and Thomas David Jones, mission specialist 3.
style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Members ---- New Members: No new members. {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\|Number of active members: 200. Total number of members: 426.}} ---- February Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. ---- {{Flag icon\|RUS}} Soyuz 2.1v and Volga — Kosmos-2581/-2582/-2583 (5 Feb. at 03:59) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flag icon\|China}} Long March 8A — 9 Hulianwang Digui (11 Feb. at 09:30) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flag icon\|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 — 23 Starlink (18 Feb. at 23:21) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flag icon\|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 — multiple (27 Feb. at 00:02) ({{Color\|green\|launch success}}) \|style="padding:5px;"\|Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 28 February 2025. ---- {\| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" \| Quality ! colspan="7" \| Importance
{{Top-Class\|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{High-Class\|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Mid-Class\|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Low-Class\|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}} ! {{Unknown-Class\|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! style="text-align: center;" \| Total
{{FA-Class\|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	7	28	14	8			57
{{FL-Class\|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		3	4	4			11
{{FM-Class\|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					123		123
{{A-Class\|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	1		3	2			6
{{GA-Class\|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	11	27	33	55		1	127
{{B-Class\|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	15	83	200	217		1	516
{{C-Class\|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	43	162	575	760		30	1,570
{{Start-Class\|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	18	146	1,022	2,565		440	4,191
{{Stub-Class\|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		9	203	2,054		244	2,510
{{List-Class\|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	10	116	108	236	1	27	498
{{Category-Class\|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					1,262		1,262
{{Disambig-Class\|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					47		47
{{File-Class\|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					223		223
{{Portal-Class\|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					55		55
{{Project-Class\|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					109		109
{{Redirect-Class\|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}		1	42	131	1,238		1,412
{{Template-Class\|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					527		527
{{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					3		3
style="text-align: center;" \| Other				1	34		35
{{Assessed-Class}}	105	575	2,204	6,033	3,622	743	13,282
{{Unassessed-Class\|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}				19		136	155
style="text-align: center;" \| Total	105	575	2,204	6,052	3,622	879	13,437

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Monthly Changes

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Since January 2025, one new high-importance, sixteen new low-importance, nineteen new NA-importance, and twelve new unknown-importance articles have been created, for a total of 58 new articles. One article has been demoted from Good Article status. There are also one more A-class article, one more B-class article, nine fewer C-class articles, thirteen more Start-class articles, three more Stub-class articles, and one more list.

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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 3

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|The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter

2025
1 — 31 March

colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" \| Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}\|WikiProject Spaceflight	class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"}} border=1 width=100% style="border:2px solid black; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#FFFAF0;" !colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"\|Volume 3 — Issue 3
colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"\|Spaceflight Project{{•}}Project discussion{{•}}Members{{•}}Assessment{{•}}Open tasks{{•}}Popular pages{{•}}The Downlink
colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|In the News ---- Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to successfully achieve a soft landing on the moon on 2 March with the landing of Blue Ghost Mission 1 near Mons Latreille. It lasted the intended length of one lunar day before losing power on 16 March. It was launched with the Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander Resilience and rover Tenacious, which are planned to land in the Mare Frigoris. On 6 March, the IM-2 mission's lunar lander Athena landed on Mons Mouton. Although intact, it landed sideways, preventing it from generating enough power to operate as designed. The mission was declared over the following day. SpaceX Crew-9 splashed down near Tallahassee, Florida on 18 March. Initially planned to launch with a full complement, the extension of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams' stay on the ISS resulted in it being launched with only two crew members.
width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Article of the month* ---- Phootprint {{Excerpt\|Phootprint\|Overview and status\|paragraphs=1, 3-4\|references=no\|hat=no}} \|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Image of the month* ---- InSight lander testing File:PIA19664-MarsInSightLander-Assembly-20150430.jpg The InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander was selected from among three options in August 2012. Initially planned to launch in March 2016, an instrument issue delayed the launch to May 2018, the next Earth-Mars launch window. It was successfully launched on 5 May, and landed on Elysium Planitia on 26 November 2018. Taking seismographic and thermographic readings, InSight operated for a total of 4 years and 19 days instead of its planned 2 year mission. The mission was declared over on 21 December, 2022 after contact was lost on 15 December. A re-analysis of some of its data indicates that there may be significant amounts of groundwater in Mars' crust.
style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Members ---- New Members: {{Noping\|Desertroseflora}} (6 March) {{Noping\|Nowhed}} (13 March) {{Noping\|4-RAZOR 01}} (15 March) {{Noping\|Orion.Project}} (28 March) {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\|Number of active members: 206. Total number of members: 430.}} ---- March Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. ---- {{Flagicon\|FRA}} Ariane 62 — CSO-3 (6 Mar. at 16:24 UTC) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flagicon\|USA}} SpaceX Starship — four Starlink simulators (6 Mar. at 23:30 UTC) ({{Color\|red\|launch failure}}) {{Flagicon\|USA}}{{Flagicon\|JAP}} Rocket Lab Electron — QPS-SAR 9/SUSANOO-1 (15 Mar. at 00:00 UTC) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flagicon\|GER}} Spectrum — no payload (30 Mar. at 10:30 UTC) ({{Color\|red\|launch failure}}) \|style="padding:5px;"\|Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 28 February 2025. ---- {\| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" \| Quality ! colspan="7" \| Importance
{{Top-Class\|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{High-Class\|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Mid-Class\|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Low-Class\|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}} ! {{Unknown-Class\|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! style="text-align: center;" \| Total
{{FA-Class\|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	7	28	14	8			57
{{FL-Class\|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		3	4	4			11
{{FM-Class\|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					123		123
{{A-Class\|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	1		3	2			6
{{GA-Class\|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	11	27	33	55		1	127
{{B-Class\|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	15	84	199	217		1	516
{{C-Class\|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	43	161	577	764		30	1,575
{{Start-Class\|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	18	145	1,021	2,569		441	4,194
{{Stub-Class\|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		9	203	2,055		245	2,512
{{List-Class\|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	10	116	108	236	1	28	499
{{Category-Class\|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					1,263		1,263
{{Disambig-Class\|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					47		47
{{File-Class\|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					223		223
{{Portal-Class\|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					55		55
{{Project-Class\|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					109		109
{{Redirect-Class\|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}		2	42	129	1,241		1,414
{{Template-Class\|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					528		528
{{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					3		3
style="text-align: center;" \| Other					28		28
{{Assessed-Class}}	105	575	2,204	6,039	3,621	746	13,290
{{Unassessed-Class\|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}				19		134	153
style="text-align: center;" \| Total	105	575	2,204	6,058	3,621	880	13,443

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Since February 2025, six new low-importance and one new unknown-importance articles have been created. One NA-importance article has been removed, for a total of six new articles. There are also five more C-class articles, three more Start-class articles, two more Stub-class articles, and one more list.

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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 4

⭠ Previous Issue

⭢ Following Issue

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|The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter

2025
1 — 30 April

colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" \| Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}\|WikiProject Spaceflight	class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"}} border=1 width=100% style="border:2px solid black; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#FFFAF0;" !colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"\|Volume 3 — Issue 4
colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"\|Spaceflight Project{{•}}Project discussion{{•}}Members{{•}}Assessment{{•}}Open tasks{{•}}Popular pages{{•}}The Downlink
colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|In the News ---- On 1 April, Fram2 became the first crewed mission to enter into a retrograde orbit around Earth's poles.
width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Article of the month* ---- Apollo Abort Guidance System {{Excerpt\|Apollo Abort Guidance System\|files=0\|references=no\|hat=no}} \|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Image of the month* ---- Falcon 9 Full Thrust File:CRS-8 (26239020092).jpg Starting development in 2014, the Falcon 9 Full Thrust is a variant of the Falcon 9 that is the first orbital rocket to have a first stage successfully land vertically after launch. The stage shown here is from the April 2016 SpaceX CRS-8 mission, after landing on the autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You.
style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Members ---- New Members: {{Noping\|Willbill6272}} (14 April) {{Noping\|Elleh3113}} (16 April) {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\|Number of active members: 208. Total number of members: 433.}} ---- April Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. ---- {{Flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 — Fram2 (1 Apr. at 00:46 UTC) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flagicon\|China}} Long March 2F/G — Shenzhou 20 (24 Apr. at 09:17 UTC) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flagicon\|USA}} Atlas V 551 — 27 KuiperSats (28 Apr. at 23:01) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) {{Flagicon\|USA}} Firefly Alpha — LM-400 Demo (29 Apr. at 13:37) ({{Color\|red\|launch failure}}) \|style="padding:5px;"\|Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 April 2025. ---- {\| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" \| Quality ! colspan="7" \| Importance
{{Top-Class\|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{High-Class\|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Mid-Class\|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Low-Class\|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}} ! {{Unknown-Class\|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! style="text-align: center;" \| Total
{{FA-Class\|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	7	28	15	8			58
{{FL-Class\|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		3	4	4			11
{{FM-Class\|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					123		123
{{A-Class\|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	1		2	2			5
{{GA-Class\|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	11	27	33	55		1	127
{{B-Class\|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	15	84	200	221		1	521
{{C-Class\|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	45	162	581	774		31	1,593
{{Start-Class\|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	16	144	1,017	2,584		444	4,205
{{Stub-Class\|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		9	204	2,049		244	2,506
{{List-Class\|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	10	120	108	236	1	30	505
{{Category-Class\|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					1,264		1,264
{{Disambig-Class\|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					47		47
{{File-Class\|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					223		223
{{Portal-Class\|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					55		55
{{Project-Class\|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					109		109
{{Redirect-Class\|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}		2	42	131	1,243		1,418
{{Template-Class\|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					528		528
{{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					1		1
style="text-align: center;" \| Other					29		29
{{Assessed-Class}}	105	579	2,206	6,064	3,623	751	13,328
{{Unassessed-Class\|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}				14		125	139
style="text-align: center;" \| Total	105	579	2,206	6,078	3,623	876	13,467

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Since March 2025, four new high-importance, two new mid-importance, twenty new low-importance, and two new NA-importance articles have been created. Four unknown-importance articles have been removed, for a total of 24 new articles. One article has been promoted to Featured Article status. There are also five more B-class articles, eighteen more C-class articles, eleven more Start-class articles, six fewer Stub-class articles, and six more lists.

Special thanks to {{Noping|Neopeius}} for significantly working on some of the Timeline of spaceflight articles (specifically 1953, 54, 55, and most recently 56). Thanks also to {{Noping|Sotakarhu}} for table work in the latter.

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April 2025

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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 5

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|The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter

2025
1 — 31 May

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{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}\|WikiProject Spaceflight	class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"}} border=1 width=100% style="border:2px solid black; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#FFFAF0; color:black;" !colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"\|Volume 3 — Issue 5
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colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|In the News ---- On 6 May, Hakuto-R Mission 2 successfully entered lunar orbit. The Soviet probe Kosmos 482 crashed into the Indian Ocean after 53 years in orbit on 10 May. According to Roscosmos, this happened at 06:24 UTC.
width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Article of the month ---- 2001 Mars Odyssey {{Excerpt\|2001 Mars Odyssey\|paragraphs=1-2\|references=no\|hat=no}} \|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Image of the month ---- International Space Station after LF1 File:ISS Aug2005.jpg Starting with Zarya in November 1998, the assembly of the International Space Station continued on a regular basis until the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which resulted in a nearly three-year pause from November 2002 to July 2005. This image shows the ISS following the installation of the second External stowage platform. ESP-2 was launched on 26 July 2005 on board Discovery as part of STS-114.
style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Members ---- New Members: {{Noping\|Animalculum}} (1 May) {{Noping\|Luckytent}} (21 May) {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\|Number of active members: 209. Total number of members: 434.}} ---- May Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. ---- {{Flagicon\|USA}} Starship — 8 Starlink Simulators (27 May at 23:36:28 UTC) ({{Color\|red\|partial failure}}) {{Flagicon\|China}} Long March 4B — Tianwen-2 (28 May at 04:00 UTC) ({{Color\|green\|success}}) \|style="padding:5px;"\|Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 May 2025. ---- {\| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" \| Quality ! colspan="7" \| Importance
{{Top-Class\|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{High-Class\|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Mid-Class\|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{Low-Class\|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! {{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}} ! {{Unknown-Class\|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}} ! style="text-align: center;" \| Total
{{FA-Class\|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	7	28	15	8			58
{{FL-Class\|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		3	4	4			11
{{FM-Class\|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					123		123
{{A-Class\|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	1		2	2			5
{{GA-Class\|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	11	27	33	55		1	127
{{B-Class\|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	15	84	200	220		1	520
{{C-Class\|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	45	163	583	784		32	1,607
{{Start-Class\|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	16	143	1,017	2,591		444	4,211
{{Stub-Class\|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}		9	205	2,043		245	2,502
{{List-Class\|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}	10	120	108	236	1	33	508
{{Category-Class\|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					1,266		1,266
{{Disambig-Class\|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					46		46
{{File-Class\|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					223		223
{{Portal-Class\|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					55		55
{{Project-Class\|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					109		109
{{Redirect-Class\|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}		2	42	132	1,244		1,420
{{Template-Class\|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					527		527
{{NA-Class\|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}					1		1
style="text-align: center;" \| Other					28		28
{{Assessed-Class}}	105	579	2,209	6,075	3,623	756	13,347
{{Unassessed-Class\|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}				12		123	135
style="text-align: center;" \| Total	105	579	2,209	6,087	3,623	879	13,482

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Monthly Changes

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Since April 2025, three new mid-importance, nine new low-importance, and three new unknown-importance articles have been created, for a total of 15 new articles. There is also one less B-class article, 14 more C-class articles, six more Start-class articles, four less Stub-class articles, and three more lists.

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