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• 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.

 

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.

 

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.

New Members:

• Itsfullofstars (Joined on the 10^th July)
• James Denesuk (Joined on the 31^st July)

July Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

1.   Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1^st at 12:48:33)   Success
2.   Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3^rd at 02:51)   Success
3.   Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4^th at 23:28)   Success
4.   Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6^th at 15:53)   Success
5.   Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9^th at 11:59)   Success
6.   Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19^th at 00:19)   Success
7.   Proton-M – Nauka (21^st at 14:58:25)   Success
8.   Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29^th at 04:01)   Success
9.   Electron – Monolith (29^th at 06:00)   Success
10.   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

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

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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• 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.

 

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.

 

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.

New Members:

• Itsfullofstars (Joined on the 10^th July)
• James Denesuk (Joined on the 31^st July)

July Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

1.   Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1^st at 12:48:33)   Success
2.   Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3^rd at 02:51)   Success
3.   Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4^th at 23:28)   Success
4.   Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6^th at 15:53)   Success
5.   Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9^th at 11:59)   Success
6.   Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19^th at 00:19)   Success
7.   Proton-M – Nauka (21^st at 14:58:25)   Success
8.   Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29^th at 04:01)   Success
9.   Electron – Monolith (29^th at 06:00)   Success
10.   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

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

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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Newsletter contributor: Terasail

• On 12^th 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 20^th August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station.
• On 28^th 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.

 

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.

 

Official portrait of Ilan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

New Members:

• Akrasia25 (Joined on the 21^st August)

August Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

1.   Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3^rd at 07:39)   Failure
2.   Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4^th at 11:01)   Success
3.   Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5^th at 16:30:05)   Success
4.   Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10^th at 22:01:05)   Success
5.   GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12^th at 00:13)   Failure
6.     Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17^th at 01:47:06)   Success
7.   Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18^th at 22:32)   Success
8.     Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21^st at 22:13:40)   Success
9.   Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24^th at 11:15)   Success
10.   Long March 3B/E – TJSW-7 (24^th at 15:41)   Success
11.   Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28^th at 22:35)   Failure
12.   Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29^th 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)

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

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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• 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.

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)

October Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here.

1.       Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-19 (5^th at 08:55:02)   Success
2.   Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14^th at 09:40:10)   Success
3.   Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14^th at 10:51)   Success
4.   Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15^th at 16:23:56)   Success
5.   Atlas V – Lucy (16^th at 09:34:00)   Success
6.   Nuri – Dummy payload (21^st at 08:00)   Failure
7.   Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24^th at 01:27:03)   Success
8.     Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24^th at 02:10)   Success
9.   H-IIA – QZS-1R (26^th at 02:19:37)   Success
10.   Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27^th at 06:19)   Success
11.     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

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

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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