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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 February 2021 — 28 February 2021
Volume 2 — Issue 5
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News!
  • The Hope orbiter reached mars on 9 February 2021. Seven months after its launch on 19 July 2020.
  • Confirmation of the Perseverance rover successfully landing on Mars was recieved at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. With the first photo from the same day.
Article of the month.

The Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, and a lightweight wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, which became the first rover to land and operate on Mars.

Image of the month.

The first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, on Perseverance.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 100. Total number of members: 313.

February Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

  1. China Hyperbola-1 – Multi-payload (1st at 08:15) Failure Failure
  2. Russia Soyuz-2.1b – Lotos S1 (2nd at 20:45:28) Success Success
  3. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18 (4th at 06:19) Success Success
  4. China Long March 3B/E – TJS 6 (4th at 15:36) Success Success
  5. Russia Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P (15th at 04:45:05) Success Success
  6. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 (16th at 03:59:37) Success Success
  7. United States Antares 230+ – NG-15 (20th at 17:36:50) Success Success
  8. China Long March 4C – Yaogan 31 (24th at 02:22) Success Success
  9. India PSLV – Amazônia-1 (28th at 04:53) Success Success
  10. Russia Soyuz-2.1b – Arktika-M 1 (28th at 06:55:01) Success Success

March Launches
Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 28 February 2021
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 17 4 7 35
FL 4 4 8
FM 97 97
GA 11 22 36 52 121
B 1 48 37 43 129
C 55 160 527 489 7 1,238
Start 38 158 1,121 2,208 372 3,897
Stub 7 245 2,178 225 2,655
List 14 131 79 211 435
Category 1,033 1,033
Disambig 48 48
File 198 198
Portal 55 55
Project 57 57
Redirect 1 1,122 1,123
Template 493 493
Other 39 39
Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,193 3,148 604 11,667
Unassessed 1 54 55
Total 126 543 2,053 5,194 3,148 658 11,722
Monthly Changes

Since January, 44 new pages have been added to Spaceflight and 1 file has become featured. There are 2 new files as well as 1 more C class, 4 more start class and 3 more stub class articles, with an additional 3 list articles.

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