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1 November 2020 — 30 November 2020

colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle"\|Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}\|WikiProject Spaceflight	class="collapsible collapsed"}} border=1 bgcolor=#FFFAF0 width=100% style="border:2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse;" !colspan=2 bgcolor=black style="color:white; padding:5px;"\|Volume 2 — 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!* ---- The ISS has been continuously occupied for the last 20 years! Expedition 1 arrived on 2 November 2000 with the first long-term residents. That’s longer then Wikipedia has existed. Crew-1 successfully launched from LC-39A on 16^th November 2020, at 00:11:15 (UTC). Later, on 17^th November 2020, 04:00 (UTC) Michael S. Hopkins, Victor J. Glover, Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker joined Expedition 64 and the crew of MS-17 on the ISS. Arianespace had a launch failure after liftoff of its Vega rocket on the 17^th November. Two satellites were lost due to an integration error of the fourth stage.
width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Article of the month.* ---- Apollo 12 File:Surveyor 3-Apollo 12.jpg Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms. \|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Image of the month.* ---- File:STS-97 ISS.jpg 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.
style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Members ---- New Members: {{noping\|Springfield2020}} (Joined on the 2^nd November) {{noping\|Helwr}} (Joined on the 12^th November) {{noping\|Hportfacts5}} (Joined on the 28^th November) {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\|Number of active members: 94. Total number of members: 298.}} ---- November Launches All times stated here are in UTC. ---- {{flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 - GPS 3 SV04 (5^th at 23:24:23) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|China}} Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 (6^th at 3:19) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|China}} Ceres-1 - Tianqi-11 (7^th at 7:12) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|India}} PSLV-DL - EOS 1 (7^th at 9:41 {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|China}} Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 (12^th at 15:59:04) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|USA}} Atlas 5 - NROL-101 (13^th at 22:32) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|USA}} {{Space icon\|c}} Falcon 9 - Crew-1 (16^th at 00:27:17) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|France}} Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17^th at 01:52:20) {{Space icon\|f}} {{Flagicon\|New Zealand}} Electron - "Return to Sender" (20^th at 01:44) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21^st at 17:71:08) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|China}} Long March 5 - Chang’e 5 (23^rd at 20:30:12) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25^th at 02:13:12) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|Japan}} H-IIA - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29^th at 7:25) {{Space icon\|s}} ---- December Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. ---- {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\| Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 Soyuz - Gonets M Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 Long March 11 - GECAM Falcon 9 - Turksat 5A Soyuz - Progress 77P Angara A5 - Test Flight Electron - The Owl's Night Begins PSLV-XL - CMS 1 Soyuz - OneWeb 4 LauncherOne - ELaNa 20 Long March 8 - XJY 7 Soyuz - CSO 2 Delta 4 Heavy - NROL-44 Delta IV Heavy - NROL-82 Falcon 9 - NROL-108 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16 Falcon 9 - SXM 7 SSLV - Demonstration Launch }} \|style="padding:5px;"\|Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 November 2020 ---- {\|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right; margin:auto"
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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Monthly Changes

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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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November 2020

colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle"\|Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}\|WikiProject Spaceflight	class="collapsible collapsed"}} border=1 bgcolor=#FFFAF0 width=100% style="border:2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse;" !colspan=2 bgcolor=black style="color:white; padding:5px;"\|Volume 2 — 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!* ---- The ISS has been continuously occupied for the last 20 years! Expedition 1 arrived on 2 November 2000 with the first long-term residents. That’s longer then Wikipedia has existed. Crew-1 successfully launched from LC-39A on 16^th November 2020, at 00:11:15 (UTC). Later, on 17^th November 2020, 04:00 (UTC) Michael S. Hopkins, Victor J. Glover, Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker joined Expedition 64 and the crew of MS-17 on the ISS. Arianespace had a launch failure after liftoff of its Vega rocket on the 17^th November. Two satellites were lost due to an integration error of the fourth stage.
width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Article of the month.* ---- Apollo 12 File:Surveyor 3-Apollo 12.jpg Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms. \|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|*Image of the month.* ---- File:STS-97 ISS.jpg 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.
style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Members ---- New Members: {{noping\|Springfield2020}} (Joined on the 2^nd November) {{noping\|Helwr}} (Joined on the 12^th November) {{noping\|Hportfacts5}} (Joined on the 28^th November) {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\|Number of active members: 94. Total number of members: 298.}} ---- November Launches All times stated here are in UTC. ---- {{flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 - GPS 3 SV04 (5^th at 23:24:23) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|China}} Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 (6^th at 3:19) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|China}} Ceres-1 - Tianqi-11 (7^th at 7:12) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|India}} PSLV-DL - EOS 1 (7^th at 9:41 {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|China}} Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 (12^th at 15:59:04) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|USA}} Atlas 5 - NROL-101 (13^th at 22:32) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|USA}} {{Space icon\|c}} Falcon 9 - Crew-1 (16^th at 00:27:17) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|France}} Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17^th at 01:52:20) {{Space icon\|f}} {{Flagicon\|New Zealand}} Electron - "Return to Sender" (20^th at 01:44) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21^st at 17:71:08) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|China}} Long March 5 - Chang’e 5 (23^rd at 20:30:12) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25^th at 02:13:12) {{Space icon\|s}} {{flagicon\|Japan}} H-IIA - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29^th at 7:25) {{Space icon\|s}} ---- December Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. ---- {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\| Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 Soyuz - Gonets M Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 Long March 11 - GECAM Falcon 9 - Turksat 5A Soyuz - Progress 77P Angara A5 - Test Flight Electron - The Owl's Night Begins PSLV-XL - CMS 1 Soyuz - OneWeb 4 LauncherOne - ELaNa 20 Long March 8 - XJY 7 Soyuz - CSO 2 Delta 4 Heavy - NROL-44 Delta IV Heavy - NROL-82 Falcon 9 - NROL-108 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16 Falcon 9 - SXM 7 SSLV - Demonstration Launch }} \|style="padding:5px;"\|Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 November 2020 ---- {\|class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right; margin:auto"
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