User talk:JFG

Lapalissade

"When JFG is right, JFG is right."

— XavierItzm, 15 August 2018, [1]

Accolade

"Wikipedia's preeminent non-admin"

— Amakuru, 1 August 2019, [2]

Psychic powers

"Have you been reading my mind?"

— MelanieN, 17 August 2018, [3]

Nickname

"JFG can now be SATAN Jr."

— MONGO, 5 August 2019, [4]

Psychic powers redux

"It's like you read my mind, JFG."

— Cosmic Sans, 13 August 2019, [5]

Block log

"a few seconds"

— The Anome, 19 December 2018, [6]

Bring it on

"You've escaped justice for now,
but you can't escape it forever."

— Factchecker_atyourservice,
20 April 2017, [7]

Thank you for your work in Project Spaceflight

		The SPFLT Achievement Patch
		Belated, but here's for all you've done for the project since 2004! Neopeius (talk) 02:05, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks, much appreciated! Happy to help document the new space age as it unfolds! — JFG ^talk 16:01, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Have you any interest in the early days of the Space Race? Sputnik, Mariner, Gemini, and all that? We have a working group that is busily filling in the gaps. We even have our own Discord chat going. --Neopeius (talk) 23:10, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm interested, although I lack time to edit and research these days. Happy to keep abreast of progress, and I may dive in occasionally. — JFG ^talk 12:50, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

"Wikipedia:POVFIGHTER" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikipedia:POVFIGHTER. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 23#Wikipedia:POVFIGHTER until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Crossroads ^-talk- 05:15, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Mrs Calment and Mrs Calment

Hi JFG,

I have seen your important activity on Jeanne Calment's article and talk page (now archives 1-4). You did a very good job in enhancing the quality of the debate and article, but for some reason your effort waned after January 2020, which gave the opportunity for some POV-pusher to get his edit lasting one whole year. He removed key references. I tried to bring them back, but so is he (back). I am defending myself in the talk page but I will need support. The "conspiracy" bots don't seem to care about rational arguments.

Kahlores (talk) 05:30, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. My editing activity is only occasional now. I have taken a brief look at the ongoing discussion and the current state of the article, and I have no time to contribute productively there. All I can say is that the disputed section currently looks too long. I see that some people are drafting a separate article about the controversy, which may be warranted. Whatever the outcome of that effort, I would prefer keeping things short on the main page, either by cutting tit-for-tat events as the controversy unfolded, or by writing a summary after such a page is forked out. I may help with that after the dust settles. — JFG ^talk 15:59, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – April 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 March 2021 — 31 March 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 6
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! 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. 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. Featured Content The Apollo 12 article was promoted to a Featured Article on March 27, 2021. After being nominated by Wehwalt who is a significant contributor to the article.
Article of the month. Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the 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.	Image of the month. Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee is shown at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.
Members New Members: Bop34 (Joined on the 2nd March) Ninney (Rejoined on the 16th March) Askeuhd (Joined on the 22nd March) Ben MacTavish (Joined on the 27th March) Number of active members: 104. Total number of members: 316. March Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17 (4th at 08:24:54) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 (11th at 08:13:29) Success Long March 7A – 7A-Y2 (11th at 17:51:28) Success Long March 4C – 4C-Y42 (13th at 02:19) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L21 (14th at 10:01:26) Success Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500 1 (22nd at 06:07:12) Success Electron – "They Go Up So Fast" (22nd at 22:30) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L22 (24th at 08:28:24) Success Soyuz-2.1a – OneWeb 5 (25nd at 02:47:33) Success Long March 4C – 4C-Y36 (30th at 22:45) Success April Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-18 GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1 Vega – Pléiades Neo 1 Falcon 9 – Crew-2 Soyuz – OneWeb 6 Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 Long March 5B – Tianhe 1	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 March 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 18 4 7 36 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 36 53 122 B 1 48 37 45 131 C 55 160 529 491 9 1,244 Start 38 158 1,118 2,223 374 3,911 Stub 6 245 2,185 227 2,663 List 14 130 79 211 434 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 199 199 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,123 1,124 Template 493 493 Other 37 37 Assessed 126 542 2,052 5,220 3,148 610 11,698 Unassessed 52 52 Total 126 542 2,052 5,220 3,148 662 11,750 Monthly Changes 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

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 April 2021 — 30 April 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 7
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On April 9 at 07:42:41 (UTC), Soyuz MS-18 successfully launched from 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 60th 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 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, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Kathleen Rubins mission of 184 days and 23 hours. Also on the 17th, Expedition 64 on the ISS ended marking the start of Expedition 65. On April 19, the Mars 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 who was the Apollo Command Module pilot, dies on April 28, 2021 aged 90. On April 29, China launched a Tianhe station core module to low Earth orbit, starting a 2 year effort to build a space station.
Article of the month. Michael Collins Michael Collins was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963 and flew in space twice.	Image of the month. The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "Blue Marble" image taken onboard of the Apollo 17 spacecraft with a blue background.
Members New Members: Anshuman~Potu~Tipu (Joined on the 1st April) DrifAssault (Joined on the 6th April) BeachFire (Joined on the 13th April) Wong Wei Hao (Joined on the 15th April) Canopyspaceadmirer (Joined on the 19th April) ThePolarcub (Joined on the 20th April) TheColourOfFear (Joined on the 27th April) StarshipSLS (Joined on the 29th April) Number of active members: 112. Total number of members: 325. April Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7th at 16:34:18) Success Long March 4B – Shiyan 6-02 (8th at 23:01) Success Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (9th at 07:42:40) Success Falcon 9 – Crew-2 (23rd at 22:14:08) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 6 (25th at 22:14:08) Success Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 (26th at 20:47) Success Long March 6 – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27th at 03:20) Success Vega – Pléiades Neo 3 (29th at 01:50:00) Success Long March 6 – Tianhe 1 (29th at 03:23:15) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29rd at 03:44) Success Long March 6 – Yaogan 34 (27th at 03:20) Success May Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 April 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 18 4 7 36 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 35 53 121 B 1 49 37 48 135 C 56 160 534 489 11 1,250 Start 37 158 1,115 2,235 373 3,918 Stub 7 244 2,191 226 2,668 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,131 1,131 Template 495 495 Other 38 38 Assessed 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 611 11,733 Unassessed 56 56 Total 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 667 11,789 Monthly Changes 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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The Downlink – June 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 May 2021 — 31 May 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2nd 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 4th 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 on Mars on 14th May. Featured Content The Apollo 7 article was featured as Today's featured article on May 16, 2021. The Lisa Nowak article was promoted to Featured Article status on May 6, 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius & Hawkeye7. The image: "Buzz Aldrin.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by TheFreeWorld.
Article of the month. Katherine Johnson 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".	Image of the month. Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.
Members New Members: NightWolf1223 (Joined on the 13th May) LemonSlushie (Joined on the 13th May) Dulliman (Joined on the 22nd May) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Joined on the 29th May) Number of active members: 116. Total number of members: 329. May Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4th at 19:01:07) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6th at 18:11) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9th at 06:42) Success Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15th at 11:11) Failure Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15th at 22:56) Success Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18th at 17:37) Success Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19th at 04:03) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26th at 18:59) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28th at 17:38:39) Success Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29th at 12:55:29) Success June Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. 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	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 May 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 4 7 37 FL 4 4 8 FM 98 98 GA 11 22 35 54 122 B 2 48 38 49 137 C 55 159 536 497 1 10 1,258 Start 37 158 1,112 2,238 372 3,917 Stub 7 245 2,190 231 2,673 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,034 1,034 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,133 1 1,135 Template 501 501 Other 1 38 39 Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,173 615 11,762 Unassessed 1 71 72 Total 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,174 686 11,834 Monthly Changes 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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Category:Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets has been nominated for deletion

Category:Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. fgnievinski (talk) 19:15, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Category:Spacecraft launched by Electron rockets has been nominated for deletion

Category:Spacecraft launched by Electron rockets has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. fgnievinski (talk) 19:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:45, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your continued kindness and spirit, Gerda Arendt <3 — JFG ^talk 12:46, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – July 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 June 2021 — 30 June 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 9
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
Featured Content! The Shuttle-Centaur article was promoted to Featured Article status on June 10, 2021. After being nominated by Hawkeye7. The Spaceflight before 1951 list was promoted to Featured List status on June 21, 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius. The image: "Timothy Peake, official portrait.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by RoanokeVirginia. The image: "Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by TheFreeWorld.
Article of the month. Lisa Nowak Lisa Marie Nowak is an American aeronautical engineer, and former NASA astronaut and United States Navy captain. Nowak was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996. She flew in space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery 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!	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 June 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 100 100 GA 11 24 34 54 123 B 2 48 39 52 141 C 55 159 544 509 1 10 1,278 Start 37 157 1,105 2,234 374 3,907 Stub 8 244 2,189 231 2,672 List 14 129 79 211 1 434 Category 1,032 1,032 Disambig 49 49 File 203 203 Portal 55 55 Project 68 68 Redirect 1 1 1,134 1 1,137 Template 501 501 Other 38 38 Assessed 126 545 2,055 5,261 3,181 617 11,785 Unassessed 1 76 77 Total 126 545 2,055 5,261 3,182 693 11,862
Image of the month. Offical portrait of Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. (Buzz Aldrin) who was the pilot on the Apollo 11 mission. This image was promoted to featured status last month! Members New Members: Schujack (Joined on the 3rd June) Frozenprakash (Joined on the 7th June) Number of active members: 118. Total number of members: 331.
Monthly Changes 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 & here for more.
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The Downlink – August 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 July 2021 — 31 July 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 10
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On 11th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity. On 17th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a "safe mode" since June 13. On 20th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule. On 26th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17th September 2001, just under 20 years ago. On 29th July The ISS was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.
Article of the month. Shuttle-Centaur Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime and Centaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.	Image of the month. This is an Extreme Deep Field image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.
Members New Members: Itsfullofstars (Joined on the 10th July) James Denesuk (Joined on the 31st July) Number of active members: 120. Total number of members: 333. July Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1st at 12:48:33) Success Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3rd at 02:51) Success Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4th at 23:28) Success Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6th at 15:53) Success Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9th at 11:59) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19th at 00:19) Success Proton-M – Nauka (21st at 14:58:25) Success Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29th at 04:01) Success Electron – Monolith (29th at 06:00) Success Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30th at 21:00) Success August Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Atlas V N22 – Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2 Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 Falcon 9 Block 5 – Starlink 2-1 GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1 Vega – Pléiades Neo 4 Long March 4C – Gaofen-3 02 EcoRocket – TBA Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 Falcon 9 Block 5 – CRS-23	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 July 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 11 24 34 54 123 B 2 48 40 52 142 C 56 160 545 510 12 1,283 Start 36 157 1,106 2,244 374 3,917 Stub 9 244 2,188 233 2,674 List 14 126 79 218 1 438 Category 1,032 1,032 Disambig 49 49 File 207 207 Portal 55 55 Project 68 68 Redirect 2 1 1 1,134 1 1,139 Template 501 501 Other 31 31 Assessed 126 546 2,058 5,278 3,179 621 11,808 Unassessed 3 1 74 78 Total 126 546 2,058 5,281 3,180 695 11,886 Monthly Changes Since June: 24 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 4 more files. There is 1 more B class article, 5 more C class articles, 10 more start class articles & 2 more stub class articles. The 2 additional FM class have been FM for a few years, they just registered this month.
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The Downlink – August 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 July 2021 — 31 July 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 10
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On 11th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity. On 17th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a "safe mode" since June 13. On 20th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule. On 26th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17th September 2001, just under 20 years ago. On 29th July The ISS was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.
Article of the month. Shuttle-Centaur Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime and Centaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.	Image of the month. This is an Extreme Deep Field image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.
Members New Members: Itsfullofstars (Joined on the 10th July) James Denesuk (Joined on the 31st July) Number of active members: 120. Total number of members: 333. July Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1st at 12:48:33) Success Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3rd at 02:51) Success Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4th at 23:28) Success Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6th at 15:53) Success Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9th at 11:59) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19th at 00:19) Success Proton-M – Nauka (21st at 14:58:25) Success Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29th at 04:01) Success Electron – Monolith (29th at 06:00) Success Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30th at 21:00) Success August Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Atlas V N22 – Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2 Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 Falcon 9 Block 5 – Starlink 2-1 GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1 Vega – Pléiades Neo 4 Long March 4C – Gaofen-3 02 EcoRocket – TBA Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 Falcon 9 Block 5 – CRS-23	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 July 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 11 24 34 54 123 B 2 48 40 52 142 C 56 160 545 510 12 1,283 Start 36 157 1,106 2,244 374 3,917 Stub 9 244 2,188 233 2,674 List 14 126 79 218 1 438 Category 1,032 1,032 Disambig 49 49 File 207 207 Portal 55 55 Project 68 68 Redirect 2 1 1 1,134 1 1,139 Template 501 501 Other 31 31 Assessed 126 546 2,058 5,278 3,179 621 11,808 Unassessed 3 1 74 78 Total 126 546 2,058 5,281 3,180 695 11,886 Monthly Changes Since June: 24 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 4 more files. There is 1 more B class article, 5 more C class articles, 10 more start class articles & 2 more stub class articles. The 2 additional FM class have been FM for a few years, they just registered this month.
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The Downlink – September 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 August 2021 — 31 August 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 11
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On 12th August a GSLV Mk.2 rocket with the EOS-03 Earth observation satellite as a payload encountered a third stage failure and crashed back into the ground after reaching a maximum altitude of 140km (87 miles). On 20th August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station. On 28th August an Astra rocket had an engine failure at launch, but managed to recover and fly to the upper atmosphere before leaving its flight corridor, resulting in flight temination.
Article of the month. Apollo 7 Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham.	Image of the month. Official portrait of Ilan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Members New Members: Akrasia25 (Joined on the 21st August) Number of active members: 122. Total number of members: 335. August Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3rd at 07:39) Failure Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4th at 11:01) Success Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5th at 16:30:05) Success Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10th at 22:01:05) Success GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12th at 00:13) Failure Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17th at 01:47:06) Success Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18th at 22:32) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21st at 22:13:40) Success Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24th at 11:15) Success Long March 3B/E – TJSW-7 (24th at 15:41) Success Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28th at 22:35) Failure Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29th at 07:14:49) Success September Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Firefly Alpha – DREAM Long March 4C – Gaofen-5 02 Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 9B Ceres-1 – Fangzhou-2F (SPARK-02F) Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 10 Falcon 9 – Inspiration4 Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F Long March 7 – Tianzhou 3 Atlas V – Landsat 9 Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D Electron – BlackSky Falcon 9 – Starlink Long March 4C – Daqi-1 (Atmosphere-1) PSLV-XL – EOS-04 (RISAT-1A) Soyuz-2.1v – Razbeg №1 (Kosmos 2551)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 August 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 10 24 34 54 122 B 4 48 41 53 146 C 57 160 546 530 1,293 Start 34 157 1,106 2,262 374 3,933 Stub 9 244 2,197 1 234 2,685 List 14 124 79 225 1 443 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 1 49 50 File 206 206 Portal 55 55 Project 58 58 Redirect 2 1,140 1,142 Template 504 504 Other 22 22 Assessed 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 609 11,841 Unassessed 53 53 Total 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 662 11,894 Monthly Changes Since July: 8 pages have been added to spaceflight. There is 1 less file. There is 1 less GA class article and are 4 less B-class, 10 more C-class, 17 more start-class and 11 new stub-class articles.
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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello JFG,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.

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November 2021 backlog drive

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The Downlink – October 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 September 2021 — 31 October 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 12
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
Featured Content! The NASA Astronaut Group 2 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Hawkeye7. The Apollo 16 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Wehwalt. The Apollo 4 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Wehwalt. The 1951 in spaceflight list was promoted to Featured List status on 23 October 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius. The image: "Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on 19 October 2021. After being nominated by Artem.G.
Members New Members: No new members. Kilawyn Punx (Joined on the 5th September) CactiStaccingCrane (Joined on the 6th September) Rainclaw7 (Joined on the 15th September) KarenWrite (Joined on the 16th September) ColtHood08 (Joined on the 20th September) Number of active members: 127. Total number of members: 340. October Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-19 (5th at 08:55:02) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14th at 09:40:10) Success Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14th at 10:51) Success Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15th at 16:23:56) Success Atlas V – Lucy (16th at 09:34:00) Success Nuri – Dummy payload (21st at 08:00) Failure Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24th at 01:27:03) Success Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24th at 02:10) Success H-IIA – QZS-1R (26th at 02:19:37) Success Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27th at 06:19) Success Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (28th at 00:00:32) Success November Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – SpaceX Crew-3 Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A Rocket 3 – STP-27AD2 Epsilon – RAISE-2 Electron – BlackSky 10 Vega – CERES × 3 Falcon 9 – CSG-2 Atlas V – STPSat-6 Falcon 9 – DART Soyuz-2.1b – Prichal (Progress M-UM) Electron – BlackSky 12 Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-2 Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-3 RS1 – Orbital Test Range × 2 Soyuz-2.1a – Neitron №1	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 October 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 21 6 7 41 FL 2 4 4 10 FM 103 103 GA 11 27 36 54 128 B 4 47 40 56 147 C 58 159 560 587 1,364 Start 33 160 1,108 2,331 334 3,966 Stub 11 243 2,186 217 2,657 List 15 126 85 230 1 457 Category 1 1,042 1,043 Disambig 51 51 File 212 212 Portal 55 55 Project 59 59 Redirect 1 1,147 1,148 Template 505 505 Other 23 23 Assessed 128 553 2,082 5,457 3,197 552 11,969 Total 128 553 2,082 5,457 3,197 552 11,969 Monthly Changes 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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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello JFG,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 715 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 1041 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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