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	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	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 11^th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity.
On 17^th 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 20^th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule.
On 26^th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17^th September 2001, just under 20 years ago.
On 29^th 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 10^th July)
James Denesuk (Joined on the 31^st 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 (1^st at 12:48:33) Success
Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3^rd at 02:51) Success
Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4^th at 23:28) Success
Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6^th at 15:53) Success
Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9^th at 11:59) Success
Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19^th at 00:19) Success
Proton-M – Nauka (21^st at 14:58:25) Success
Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29^th at 04:01) Success
Electron – Monolith (29^th at 06:00) Success
Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30^th 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
Quality	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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