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	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 January

Volume 4 — Issue 1
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In the News NASA called off a planned spacewalk of SpaceX Crew-11 on 8 January, and later cancelled the mission outright, after one of the crewmembers, Mike Fincke, was reported to have a medical complication. This was the first time that this occurred in US history. On 11 January, the Pandora spacecraft was successfully launched. Pandora is designed to study the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets, with the intention of identifying targets for future observation.
Article of the month Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE) is a proposed space telescope for NASA's Explorer program to observe circumstellar protoplanetary and debris discs and study planet formation around nearby (within 100 parsecs) stars of spectral classes M to B. Had it been selected for development, it was proposed to launch in 2019. The spacecraft concept proposed to use a 70 centimeter diameter telescope-mounted coronagraph called PIAA (Phase Induced Amplitude Apodized Coronagraph) to suppress starlight in order to be able to detect fainter radiation of circumstellar dust. Characterizing constitution of such disks would provide clues for planetary formation (mostly in habitable zones), while already existing exoplanets can be detected through their interaction with dust disk. The project's Principal Investigator is Glenn Schneider.	Image of the month Wernher von Braun with the Rocketdyne F-1 engines Pictured here are two titans of spaceflight history: Dr. Wernher von Braun, one of the main figures of the early American space program and designer of both the Saturn V and V-2 rockets, and five (four visible) Rocketdyne F-1 engines, used on the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle. Dr. von Braun's career is noted for a great number of achievements in human spaceflight, including the Apollo mission which successfully put human beings on the moon; nevertheless, it is burdened with the shadow of his activities in the Nazi Party, especially concerning his work on the V-2. The engines behind him, in addition to being immense, have the honor of being the only engines used to get humans to the moon, as of the time of writing. Developed in the late 1950s, the 8,400 kilograms (18,500 lb) engines are still the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid-propellant rocket ever made.
Members New Members: GiftedIceCream (24 January) Number of active members: 219. Total number of members: 446. January Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a complete list here. Falcon 9 Block 5 — various, including Pandora (11 Jan. at 13:44:50) (success) PSLV-DL — various, including EOS-N1 and THEOS-2A (12 Jan. at 04:48:30) (launch failure) Ceres-2 — various (17 Jan. at 04:05) (launch failure)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 January 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 59 2 133 B 16 77 196 236 6 531 C 44 170 607 860 1 58 1,740 Start 15 134 1,026 2,701 499 4,375 Stub 5 195 1,986 296 2,482 List 11 119 110 239 1 44 524 Category 1,282 1,282 Disambig 48 48 File 275 275 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 143 1,248 1,436 Template 534 534 NA 2 2 Other 34 34 Assessed 105 566 2,232 6,237 3,713 905 13,758 Unassessed 1 8 127 136 Total 105 567 2,232 6,245 3,713 1,032 13,894 Monthly Changes Since December 2025, there are two fewer top-importance, two more high-importance, two more mid-importance, 19 more low-importance, 20 more NA-importance, and 31 more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 72 new articles. There are also three more GA-class, three more B-class, twelve more C-class, eleven more Start-class, and eleven more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:43, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

See also section in Football related articles, Transclude template use

You have been asked and warned many a times to go through guidelines and policies of wikipedia. Such edits are done by you in, God knows how many article. So, I'm asking, immediately revert all these See also section, remove the transclude template as this is not how articles are written. Above that some of the links are repetitive, like for men's team, link of women's team article is already there on the top of the article. I have seen you did these even in the SAFF articles too, I will not be surpised if you did in other country and AFC related articles too. So kindly, revert all those, as this will be huge burden on editors to check and revert one by one. Ping me after doing it. Drat8sub (talk) 12:29, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out. I had reviewed the See also guideline before adding the tables, and it did not discourage me from adding a table so I thought they were useful for navigation between related articles in a structured way. However, I understand your concern about it. And No, I haven't been previously warned for the see also edits.

God knows how many article.

I would like you to WP:AGF, as I intented for reader's convinience. This statement of yours is dismissive and sounds acusatory which is discouraged under WP:CIVIL.

I will not be surpised if you did in other country and AFC related articles too

You are mistaken and need not to be worried as I added this only for Indian national football teams, the current Indian football leagues' season and 2025, 2026 in SAFF Competitions so far.

I'm asking, immediately revert all these See also section

Wikipedia users cannot order others to edit. Violates WP:OWN. I'd rather like to have a consensus on the inclusion of these tables, wherever possible as they are useful for the readers to navigate similar articles since a bulleted list would be too long. Footy2000♡ (🗨) 14:02, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

• Did you start a conversation anywhere in any of the article talk pages, in my talk page or your talkpage before doing the reverts like this one as I've already removed them like this one.? No, you did not, rather you did this in every other article of NT & you are talking about good faith. This conversation is started by me, because assumed your edit as GF edit in the first place.
• MOS:ALSO clearly says,

  "The section should be a bulleted list, sorted either logically (for example, by subject matter), chronologically, or alphabetically. Consider using Columns-list or Div col if the list is lengthy. List entries should begin with a capital letter."

  What do you think, how these guidelines were made ? With or without consesnsus!! So, ofcourse it is certainly not encouraging you to put table. So, surely a case of WP:POINTY and WP:STONEWALLING.
• No body said, you are warned for see also guidelines..rather overall guidelines. One example, you still failing to add WP:EDITSUMMARY. 90% don't have one. The whole thing also showing WP:COMPETENCE as you failed to understand a simple guideline and guidance.
• Yes, God knows how many articles, you've very low rate of Edit Summary as mentioned above, how on earth anybody can understand what and why you are doing the edits. Why would any editor open each of the edits to understand what you are doing. And you not only reverted and re-added in the NT articles but also with SAFF and league related articles. It's a fair assumption to think you did with other articles too, not mistaken, a justified assumption. For e.g, here.
• For navigation, navigation template is already there, some articles already linked where it should be as mentioned above. So, surely you are not helping the cause and also not helping by saying "bulleted list is too long", as your tables are taking the same amount of spaces. And asking you to do that is not owning, or going against civil. Above that I've used "kindly". You already knew this is not the correct way, as the guidelines clearly say how to do, as someone already reverted it and asked you with guidelines, rather you are trying WP:IDHT & WP:GAMING.
• Surely, you can go for consensus, but before consensus you must maintain status quo, revert your edit, as per guidelines you should not add these as you wished to add rather bulleted list, as mentioned above, then you start a discussion at the Footy project, get consensus and edit whatever consensus is achived. Again, there is WP:NOTUNANIMITY.

I hope and expect you revert those edits from all the articles, as you want a consensus. Thank you. Drat8sub (talk) 17:21, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

I understand your concerns regarding bulleted lists. You are right to raise concern on my edits lacking summarises too, especially on the important ones. I intended to organise the related articles in a structured way and since the see also MOS mentions: the section itself is not required I made WP:BOLD edits. However, Invoking so many policies and going as far as including WP:COMPETENCE and questioning a user's competence is close to WP:NPA and better left to administrators and the community to decide. Since there is a disagreement, it may be best to discuss this at the footy wikiproject. In the meantime, I will avoid adding new tables until a consensus is reached. To let you know, I am open to working towards a solution which aligns with MOS as well makes it easier for the readers. Thanks. Footy2000♡ (🗨) 18:04, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 2

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 28 February

Volume 4 — Issue 2
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In the News The first crewed spaceflight of 2026, SpaceX Crew-12, was launched on the 13th. Four astronauts were flown to the ISS in an atypical indirect handover that was caused by the early return of Crew-11 due to a medical emergency. On the 14th, the ESA lost contact with PROBA-3, a dual-probe technological demonstration mission for chronographic high-precision formation flying. Specifically, the Chronograph Spacecraft lost orientation and drifted away from the Occulter.
Article of the month Parking orbit A parking orbit is a temporary orbit used during the launch of a spacecraft. A launch vehicle follows a trajectory to the parking orbit, then coasts for a while, then engines fire again to enter the final desired trajectory. An alternative trajectory that is used on some missions is direct injection, where the rocket fires continuously (except during staging) until its fuel is exhausted, ending with the payload on the final trajectory. This technique was first used by the Soviet Venera 1 mission to Venus in 1961.	Image of the month Space Shuttle Endeavour prior to rendezvous with the International Space Station Part of a series of photographs, this image depicts the Space Shuttle Endeavour prior to rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station as part of STS-130 in 2010. It was taken from the station by a member of Expedition 22 when the ISS was 183 nautical miles above the South Pacific, off the coast of southern Chile. Earth is in the bottom-left; the orange part of the atmosphere is the troposphere, the white band in the middle is the stratosphere, and the blue section is the mesosphere.
Members New Members: none Number of active members: 219. Total number of members: 446. February Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Proton-M/DM-03 — Elektro–L №5, Jam-e-Jam 1 (12 Feb. at 08:52:15) (success) Vulcan Centaur VC4S — GSSAP-7/-8, USA-584 (12 Feb. at 09:22:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 28 February 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 59 2 133 B 16 77 196 238 7 534 C 44 170 609 868 1 61 1,753 Start 15 134 1,026 2,713 503 4,391 Stub 5 194 1,976 297 2,472 List 11 119 111 242 1 44 528 Category 1,284 1,284 Disambig 48 48 File 274 274 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 141 1,248 1,434 Template 533 533 NA 2 2 Other 1 37 38 Assessed 105 566 2,234 6,251 3,716 914 13,786 Unassessed 1 9 128 138 Total 105 567 2,234 6,260 3,716 1,042 13,924 Monthly Changes Since January 2026, there are two more mid-importance, fifteen more low-importance, three more NA-importance, and ten more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 30 new articles. There are also three more B-class, thirteen more C-class, sixteen more Start-class, and ten fewer Stub-class articles, and four more lists.
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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 3

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 March

Volume 4 — Issue 3
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In the News On 22 March, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 was used for the first time since being damaged in November 2025. Progress MS-33, a resupply mission to the ISS, was launched from the site following substantial repairs. ESA launched the first two satellites in the Celeste constellation on 28 March. They were launched aboard a Electron launch vehicle, marking the first time ESA has used the vehicle. China's Qingzhou cargo spacecraft was tested for the first time on 30 March. Launched on the maiden flight of the Kinetica 2, the prototype performed a number of tests in coordination with another satellite.
Article of the month OTV-2 OTV-2 (also known as USA-226) was the first flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 5 March 2011, and landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base on 16 June 2012. It operated in low Earth orbit. Its USA-226 mission designation is part of the USA series. The spaceplane was operated by Air Force Space Command, which has not revealed the specific identity of the payload for the first flight. The Air Force stated only that the spacecraft would "demonstrate various experiments and allow satellite sensors, subsystems, components, and associated technology to be transported into space and back."	Image of the month STS-1 This section is an excerpt from STS-1.[edit] STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times. Columbia carried a crew of two—commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen. It was the first American crewed space flight since the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975. STS-1 was also the maiden test flight of a new American spacecraft to carry a crew, though it was preceded by atmospheric testing (ALT) of the orbiter and ground testing of the Space Shuttle system. The launch occurred on the 20th anniversary of Vostok 1, the first human spaceflight, performed by Yuri Gagarin for the USSR. This was a coincidence rather than a celebration of the anniversary; a technical problem had prevented STS-1 from launching two days earlier, as was planned.
Members New Members: Swedmark111 (26 March) Number of active members: 220. Total number of members: 447. March Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Alpha Block 1 — ICOR SV (11 Mar. at 00:50:00) (success) Soyuz-2.1a — Progress MS-33 (22 Mar. at 11:59:51) (success) Rocket Lab Electron — Celeste IOD-1/-2 (28 Mar. at 09:14:00) (success) Kinetica 2 — New March 01/02, TS 01 (30 Mar. at 11:00:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 March 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 59 3 134 B 16 77 196 239 7 535 C 44 170 609 875 1 68 1,767 Start 15 134 1,026 2,724 511 4,410 Stub 5 194 1,974 298 2,471 List 11 119 111 244 1 45 531 Category 1,285 1,285 Disambig 48 48 File 274 274 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 142 1,250 1,437 Template 533 533 NA 2 2 Other 45 45 Assessed 105 566 2,234 6,270 3,727 932 13,834 Unassessed 1 6 121 128 Total 105 567 2,234 6,276 3,727 1,053 13,962 Monthly Changes Since February 2026, there are 16 more Low-importance, eleven more NA-importance, and eleven more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 38 new articles. There are also one more GA-class, one more B-class, 14 more C-class, 19 more Start-class, one fewer Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:38, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Unnecessary redirect

Can you kindly explain why do you need to create the 2026–27 Indian Football League redirect, when there is absolutely no need of making one? Kindly, delete the redirect so that in future it's easier for creating the article. Drat8sub (talk) 17:18, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

There currently aren't enough sources to necessitate an article for the upcoming IFL season. Also WP:Crystal. 2025–26 I-League 2 page has promoted teams but they require linking to the 2026–27 IFL article, hence a redirect. The 2026–27 IFL page can always be created by clicking on the original article link that comes above the redirected page. Also, as mentioned earlier, wikipedia users cannot order others to edit, Violates WP:OWN. Footy2000♡ (🗨) 17:28, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

You did not answer yet, why do you need to create the redirect, since there was no deletion of page or creation. Secondly, whether there is enough source or not, or when the article will be created, who can create, that is not you duty to tell, neither you should say that. Kindly, don't gaslight by showing...wp:own guidelines, that's certainly what you tried to do with that redirect. Someone who want to create the article, seeing the link in the infobox will not create one, thinking it's already created. Last time also you are replying in similar pattern without addressing the issue. Finally, nobody is ordering you, requested you to delete through CSD G7 criteria, since there is absolutely no need of that redirect, it is not serving any purpose. I hope you will do that, it is a request. Drat8sub (talk) 19:10, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 4

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 30 April

Volume 4 — Issue 4
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In the News Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17, was launched on 1 April. During the lunar flyby, it became the furthest spaceflight in human history on the 6th. Integrity, the re-entry vehicle, splashed down southwest of San Diego on the 11th. On 8 April, the first satellites of the Celeste (LEO-PNT) constellation began broadcasting navigation signals for the first time.
Featured Content The image "STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery after undocking" was promoted to Featured Media status on 30 April. It was nominated by Moonreach.
Article of the month Gallaudet Eleven The Gallaudet Eleven were a group of eleven deaf men recruited in the late 1950s and 1960s to participate in a joint research program led by NASA and the U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine (later changed to Aerospace Medical Association) to study the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. They were selected for participation in the study because damage they had sustained to the vestibular systems of their inner ears had granted them immunity to motion sickness, making them uniquely resilient to certain physical studies that would have made other test subjects nauseous.	Image of the month Clayton Anderson under weightlessness A demonstration of weightlessness by astronaut Clayton Anderson, particularly its effect on liquids. The water's surface tension keeps it in a sphere, which here results in the light reflecting off of Anderson being refracted in such a way that it appears upside-down. It is only upside-down relative to Anderson, as there is no "up" or "down" in a weightless environment beyond convention.
Members New Members: DevonHalDraedle (10 April) SpooklesMan (11 April) Kr0ndstat (15 April) JerryAkpan5001 (15 April) ParanormalCaramel (16 April) Nicknme (21 April) AZenit3 (30 April) Number of active members: 225. Total number of members: 454. April Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list . Space Launch System Block 1 — various, including Artemis II (1 Apr. at 22:35:12) (success) Tianlong-3 — unknown (3 Apr. at 04:17:00) (launch failure) New Glenn — BlueBird 7 (19 Apr. at 11:25:00) (launch failure) Falcon 9 Block 5 — USA-585 (21 Apr. 06:53:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 April 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 58 3 133 B 16 78 196 242 8 540 C 44 170 613 894 1 78 1,800 Start 15 133 1,023 2,727 510 4,408 Stub 5 193 1,973 323 2,494 List 11 119 111 244 1 48 534 Category 1,280 1,280 Disambig 47 47 File 277 277 Portal 55 55 Project 108 108 Redirect 2 42 145 1,259 1,448 Template 533 533 NA 1 1 Other 1 45 46 Assessed 105 566 2,233 6,297 3,731 970 13,902 Unassessed 1 7 110 118 Total 105 567 2,233 6,304 3,731 1,080 14,020 Monthly Changes Since March 2026, there are one fewer Mid-importance, 28 more Low-importance, four more NA-importance, and 27 more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 58 new articles. There are also one fewer GA-class, five more B-class, 33 more C-class, two fewer Start-class, 23 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 5

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 May

Volume 4 — Issue 5
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In the News On 15 May, NASA's Psyche flew 4,500 kilometres (2,800 mi) above the surface of Mars while performing a gravity assist. SMILE was launched on 19 May. A joint mission of ESA and CAS, SMILE aims to study the effects of solar wind on Earth's magnetosphere. On 22 May, Starship flight test 12 was performed. This was the first use of both the Block 3 and Starbase's second launch pad. The ICARUS Initiative launched the first of its ICARUS 2.0 constellation's satellites on 3 May. The satellite, named RAVEN, was constructed by EnduroSat, and is built to track animal migrations.
Article of the month Polyus (spacecraft) Polyus on the Energia rocket The Polyus spacecraft (Russian: Полюс, pole), also known as Polus, Skif-DM, GRAU index 17F19DM, was a prototype Soviet orbital weapons platform designed to destroy Strategic Defense Initiative satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser. It had a Functional Cargo Block derived from a TKS spacecraft to control its orbit and it could launch test targets to demonstrate the fire control system.	Image of the month Integrated Truss Structure of the ISS This graphic is an exploded view of the Integrated Truss Structure, the long segment that has the ISS' distinctive solar panels. The first piece, Z1, was installed in October 2000, while the most recent addition, S6, being installed in October 2007; the current configuration of the ITS dates to June 2023. In addition to providing electricity via the solar panels, the ITS is the location of energy storage, with battery assemblies on the P4/6 and S4/6 segments. These each consist of 24 lithium-ion batteries, for a total of 96 batteries.
Members New Members: ThePrehistoricBlob12345 (19 May) RockyKT (21 May) A Random Hylian (21 May) Analemnas (26 May) The Boat Boy (31 May) Doeze (31 May) Number of active members: 230. Total number of members: 460. May Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Zhuque-2E — Dingzhihua Shiyan Zaihe (14 May at 03:00:00) (success) Vega C — SMILE	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 May 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 58 3 133 B 17 78 197 245 8 545 C 42 171 617 904 1 76 1,811 Start 15 133 1,025 2,731 510 4,414 Stub 5 192 1,975 340 2,512 List 11 117 112 244 1 50 535 Category 1,281 1,281 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 55 55 Project 108 108 Redirect 2 43 144 1,258 1,447 Template 534 534 NA 1 1 Other 1 47 48 Assessed 104 565 2,241 6,315 3,733 987 13,945 Unassessed 6 113 119 Total 104 565 2,241 6,321 3,733 1,100 14,064 Monthly Changes Since April 2026, there are one fewer Top-importance, two fewer High-importance, eight more Mid-importance, 17 more Low-importance, two more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 44 new articles. There are also five more B-class, eleven more C-class, six more Start-class, 18 more Stub-class articles, and one more list.
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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 6

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 30 June

Volume 4 — Issue 6
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In the News On 7 June, Tianwen-2 performed a successful orbital insertion around 469219 Kamoʻoalewa; this is the first mission to the quasi-satellite SMILE, the joint heliophysics mission between the ESA and CAS, achieved its final orbital position on 20 June.
Article of the month Expedition 24 A last-quarter crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member. Expedition 24 was the 24th long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 24 initially had two planned spacewalks, one Russian and one American Extra-vehicular Activity (EVA). The U.S. EVA was re-planned and a second U.S. EVA was added.	Image of the month NASA spacecraft comparison This graphic, created c. 1964, compares the relative sizes of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft (right, bottom-to-top). Each successive craft is larger and has a greater crew capacity than the previous; additionally, while the Mercury and Gemini craft are fairly similar, the Apollo craft (actually two craft, the Apollo command and service module and Apollo Lunar Module) is substantially different: the reentry module is more conical, and has a much large thruster. These changes, and the lunar lander, are present because Apollo was the first crewed missions to the moon, with the changes necessary to ensure that the crew could return to Earth alive. A similar pattern can be found in the comparison of the launch vehicles on the left: while the Mercury (Atlas-D) and Gemini (Titan II) vehicles are similar in size, differing primarily in height, the Apollo vehicle, the Saturn V, is significantly larger, both for the need to transport the CSM and LEM, but also in order to get to the Moon in the first place.
Members New Members: LonghairSpaceHistoryGuy (8 June) Jake11223344 (23 June) DragonPowerZ (23 June) Number of active members: 232. Total number of members: 463. June Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list Here. Long March 12B — 2 Qianfan satellites (1 Jun. at 08:40:00) (success) H3-30S — various (12 Jun. at 00:53:59) (success) Long March 3B/E — Shijian-31 (16 Jun. at 09:45:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 30 June 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 62 3 137 B 18 78 200 246 10 552 C 41 171 617 906 1 80 1,816 Start 15 133 1,024 2,734 513 4,419 Stub 5 192 1,974 338 2,509 List 11 117 112 246 1 50 537 Category 1,283 1,283 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 54 54 Project 108 108 Redirect 2 42 144 1,259 1,447 Template 534 534 Other 1 36 37 Assessed 104 565 2,242 6,326 3,723 994 13,954 Unassessed 7 112 119 Total 104 565 2,242 6,333 3,723 1,106 14,073 Monthly Changes Since May 2026, there are one more Mid-importance, 12 more Low-importance, ten fewer NA-importance, and six more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of nine new articles. There are also four more GA-class, seven more B-class, five more C-class, five more Start-class, three more Stub-class articles, and two more lists.
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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 7

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 July

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In the News On the 2 and 5 July, Tianwen-2 imaged 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and Hayabusa2 imaged 98943 Torifune, respectively. While the latter was a flyby, Tianwen-2 rendezvoused with Kamoʻoalewa on 4 July following orbital insertion at ~20 kilometres (12 mi); it is planned to return samples from the Apollo asteroid. The Swift boost mission was launched on 3 July. This was the final launch of the Pegasus XL, and consequently the end of air-launch-to-orbit worldwide as of the time of writing. China became the second country to achieve the recovery of a booster with the maiden flight of the Long March 10B on 10 July. On 18 July, Vikram-1 was successfully launched, carrying multiple objects to LEO; built and launched by Skyroot Aerospace, it is India's first commercial rocket.
Article of the month Night Glider mode The ISS in 2001 showing solar panels. Night Glider mode (or "XVV Night Glider mode") is one of the procedures for orienting the solar arrays on the International Space Station. Normally the photovoltaic solar arrays of the space station track the sun. However, one of the main causes of orbital decay on the space station is that the area of the solar arrays, brushing against the thin residual atmosphere at orbital altitude, results in a small amount of aerodynamic drag. The drag can be lowered by orienting the solar arrays in "sun slicer" mode, where they fly edge-on to the orbital direction, rather than tracking the sun, however, this orientation reduces the power produced. The "night glider" mode is a hybrid orientation, where the solar arrays track the sun during the period when the space station is illuminated, are rotated edge-on to the orbital direction when it enters in the Earth's shadow, and then are returned to their tracking position when the station re-enters sunlight. This reduces the average drag on the station's solar arrays by about 30 percent, with no reduction in power.	Image of the month Buzz Aldrin and Apollo 11 Lunar Lander Taken by Neil Armstrong, this image shows Buzz Aldrin removing the passive seismometer, part of the Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSEP), from the lander. Like all experimental instruments, the PSEP was stored in the lander's Scientific Equipment (SEQ) bay; on Apollo 11, it was stored along with the Laser Ranging Retroreflector (LRRR). Initially, NASA planned a full array of experiments for all Apollo missions, but the uncertainty of the first lunar landing led to only these two experiments being conducted. This first package was called the Early Apollo Surface Experiments Package (EASEP); later missions carried the full Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP).
Members New Members: Leaf.Sheap (2 July) KyloRen2017 (6 July) ToadalChaos (22 July) Number of active members: 206. Total number of members: 466. July Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Pegasus XL — Swift boost mission (3 Jul. at 04:24:00) (success Long March 10B — Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan (10 Jul. at 04:15:00) (success) Vikram-1 — SCOPE, SOLARAS S3 (18 Jul. at 06:35:30) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 July 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 34 62 3 137 B 18 79 202 247 10 556 C 42 173 617 914 1 88 1,835 Start 14 133 1,024 2,742 517 4,430 Stub 5 192 1,971 339 2,507 List 11 117 110 248 1 50 537 Category 1,291 1,291 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 54 54 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 44 147 1,257 1,450 Template 535 535 Other 1 43 44 Assessed 104 568 2,244 6,345 3,738 1,007 14,006 Unassessed 4 109 113 Total 104 568 2,244 6,349 3,738 1,116 14,119 Monthly Changes Since June 2026, there are three more High-importance, two more Mid-importance, thirteen more Low-importance, five more NA-importance, and ten more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 46 new articles. There are also four more B-class, nineteen more C-class, eleven more Start-class, and two more Stub-class articles.
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The Downlink Volume 4, Issue 8

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		2026 1 — 31 August

Volume 4 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 19 August, NASA scrubbed the Swift Rescue Mission after the spacecraft, LINK, suffered technical issues. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was successfully launched on 30 August. NGRST's primary missions are to study dark energy and exoplanets. In late August, NASA's Pandora telescope was fully commissioned, beginning its mission of studying the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets.
Article of the month James Woodward (physicist) James F. Woodward (1941 – August 9, 2025) was an American physicist who was professor emeritus of history and an adjunct professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton. He is best known for a physics hypothesis that he proposed in 1990, later expanded, that predicts several physical effects that he refers to as 'Mach effects'. Woodward claimed the effect could be used as a reactionless drive for space travel.	Image of the month Test inflation of PAGEOS, a balloon satellite The Passive Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite (PAGEOS) was the first dedicated geodetic surveying satellite. PAGEOS was the culmination of a series of balloon satellites that started in 1960 with Project Echo. These satellites were commissioned following the launch of Sputnik 1, as the United States was eager to catch up to the Soviet Union during the Space Race. Construction of PAGEOS was undertaken by the Gilmore Schjeldahl#Schjeldahl Company, founded by the same man who invented the sickness bag. This image shows a test inflation of the 30 m (100 ft), 57 kg (125 lb) satellite performed on 5 August, 1965.
Members New Members: none Number of active members: 206. Total number of members: 466. August Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Zhuque-3 — Honghu-03 (18 Aug. at 23:35) (success) Falcon Heavy — Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (30 Aug. at 11:26:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 August 2026. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 6 30 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 36 62 3 139 B 18 79 200 246 11 554 C 42 173 617 918 2 86 1,838 Start 14 134 1,024 2,748 531 4,451 Stub 4 192 1,972 345 2,513 List 11 117 111 250 1 50 540 Category 1,302 1,302 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 54 54 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 44 152 1,262 1,460 Template 536 536 Other 1 35 36 Assessed 104 568 2,245 6,362 3,748 1,026 14,053 Unassessed 2 110 112 Total 104 568 2,245 6,364 3,748 1,136 14,165 Monthly Changes Since July 2026, there are one more Mid-importance, 15 more Low-importance, ten more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 46 new articles. There are also two more B-class, three more C-class, 21 more Start-class, six more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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