Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Downlink/2021/October

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!rowspan=2 style="padding:0px 2em; font-size:42px; text-align:left;"|The Downlink

1 September 2021 — 31 October 2021

colspan="8"\|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 1 — Issue 12
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;"\|*Featured Content!* ---- The NASA Astronaut Group 2 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by {{Noping\|Hawkeye7}}. The Apollo 16 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by {{Noping\|Wehwalt}}. The Apollo 4 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by {{Noping\|Wehwalt}}. The 1951 in spaceflight list was promoted to Featured List status on 23 October 2021. After being nominated by {{Noping\|Neopeius}}. The image: "Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on 19 October 2021. After being nominated by {{Noping\|Artem.G}}.
style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"\|Members ---- New Members: No new members. {{Noping\|Kilawyn Punx}} (Joined on the 5{{Sup\|th}} September) {{Noping\|CactiStaccingCrane}} (Joined on the 6{{Sup\|th}} September) {{Noping\|Rainclaw7}} (Joined on the 15{{Sup\|th}} September) {{Noping\|KarenWrite}} (Joined on the 16{{Sup\|th}} September) {{Noping\|ColtHood08}} (Joined on the 20{{Sup\|th}} September) {{columns-list\|colwidth=15em\|Number of active members: 127. Total number of members: 340.}} ---- October Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. ---- {{Flagicon\|RUS}} {{Flagicon\|KAZ}} {{Space icon\|c}} Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-19 (5{{Sup\|th}} at 08:55:02) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14{{Sup\|th}} at 09:40:10) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|CHN}} Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14{{Sup\|th}} at 10:51) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|CHN}} Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15{{Sup\|th}} at 16:23:56) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|USA}} Atlas V – Lucy (16{{Sup\|th}} at 09:34:00) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|KOR}} Nuri – Dummy payload (21{{Sup\|st}} at 08:00) {{Space icon\|f}} {{Flagicon\|CHN}} Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24{{Sup\|th}} at 01:27:03) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|EUR}} {{Flagicon\|FRA}} Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24{{Sup\|th}} at 02:10) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|JPN}} H-IIA – QZS-1R (26{{Sup\|th}} at 02:19:37) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|CHN}} Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27{{Sup\|th}} at 06:19) {{Space icon\|s}} {{Flagicon\|RUS}} {{Flagicon\|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (28{{Sup\|th}} at 00:00:32) {{Space icon\|s}} ---- November Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. ---- {{Flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 – SpaceX Crew-3 {{Flagicon\|CHN}} Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A {{Flagicon\|USA}} Rocket 3 – STP-27AD2 {{Flagicon\|JPN}} Epsilon – RAISE-2 {{Flagicon\|USA}} {{Flagicon\|NZL}} Electron – BlackSky 10 {{Flagicon\|EUR}} {{Flagicon\|FRA}} Vega – CERES × 3 {{Flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 – CSG-2 {{Flagicon\|USA}} Atlas V – STPSat-6 {{Flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 – DART {{Flagicon\|RUS}} {{Flagicon\|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1b – Prichal (Progress M-UM) {{Flagicon\|USA}} {{Flagicon\|NZL}} Electron – BlackSky 12 {{Flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-2 {{Flagicon\|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-3 {{Flagicon\|USA}} RS1 – Orbital Test Range × 2 {{Flagicon\|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a – Neitron №1 \|width=50% style="padding:5px;"\|Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 October 2021. ---- {\|class="wikitable" style="text-align: right; margin:auto"
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom"\|Quality !colspan="7"\|Importance
{{Top-Class}}	{{High-Class}}	{{Mid-Class}}	{{Low-Class}}	{{NA-Class}}	{{Unknown-Class}}	Total
{{FA-Class}}	7	21	6	7			41
{{FL-Class}}		2	4	4			10
{{FM-Class}}					103		103
{{GA-Class}}	11	27	36	54			128
{{B-Class}}	4	47	40	56			147
{{C-Class}}	58	159	560	587			1,364
{{Start-Class}}	33	160	1,108	2,331		334	3,966
{{Stub-Class}}		11	243	2,186		217	2,657
{{List-Class}}	15	126	85	230		1	457
{{Category-Class}}				1	1,042		1,043
{{Disambig-Class}}					51		51
{{File-Class}}					212		212
{{Portal-Class}}					55		55
{{Project-Class}}					59		59
{{Redirect-Class}}				1	1,147		1,148
{{Template-Class}}					505		505
style="text-align: center;"\|Other					23		23
{{Assessed-Class}}	128	553	2,082	5,457	3,197	552	11,969
style="text-align: center;"\|Total	128	553	2,082	5,457	3,197	552	11,969

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Monthly Changes

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Since August: 75 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 3 more FA class articles, 1 more FL class page and 1 more FM class file. There are 6 less files. There are 6 more GA class articles and 1 more B-class article, 71 more C-class, 33 more start-class and 28 less stub-class articles.

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