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The 2021 October edition was the last published issue of The Downlink:

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	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	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 5^th September)
CactiStaccingCrane (Joined on the 6^th September)
Rainclaw7 (Joined on the 15^th September)
KarenWrite (Joined on the 16^th September)
ColtHood08 (Joined on the 20^th 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 (5^th at 08:55:02) Success
Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14^th at 09:40:10) Success
Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14^th at 10:51) Success
Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15^th at 16:23:56) Success
Atlas V – Lucy (16^th at 09:34:00) Success
Nuri – Dummy payload (21^st at 08:00) Failure
Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24^th at 01:27:03) Success
Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24^th at 02:10) Success
H-IIA – QZS-1R (26^th at 02:19:37) Success
Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27^th at 06:19) Success
Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (28^th 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
Quality	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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