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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 October 2020 — 31 October 2020
Volume 2 — Issue 1
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News!
  • The Soyuz MS-17 launched on 14 October 2020, 05:45:04 and docked after a "two-orbit rendezvous flight plan" to the ISS only three hours later at 08:48:47 UTC.
  • The OSIRIS-REx probe successfully makes brief touchdown and collects a sample from the asteroid Bennu at 22:13 UTC on 20 October 2020.
  • Expedition 63 ended on 21 October 2020, 23:32 UTC after 187 days, 21 hours and 38 minutes duration.
  • Expedition 64 began on 21 October 2020, 23:32:00 UTC. With ISS commander: Sergey Ryzhikov, and astronauts: Kathleen Rubins & Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.
  • Soyuz MS-16 landed on 22 October 2020, 02:54:12 UTC after 195 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in space.
Article of the month.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third person and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.

Image of the month.

Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 91.
Total number of members: 295.

Article Statistics — This data reflects values from the 31 October 2020
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 16 2 7 32
FL 4 4 8
FM 92 92
GA 11 22 36 47 116
B 1 46 37 46 130
C 55 157 513 446 5 1,176
Start 37 159 1,121 2,186 367 3,870
Stub 8 249 2,105 223 2,585
List 14 128 76 203 421
Category 1,020 1,020
Disambig 46 46
File 194 194
Portal 54 54
Project 67 67
Redirect 1,132 1,132
Template 485 485
Other 25 25
Assessed 125 536 2,038 5,044 3,121 595 11,459
Unassessed 54 54
Total 125 536 2,038 5,044 3,121 649 11,513
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 43,586 Ω = 4.92
October Launches — All times stated here are in UTC.
  1. Antares - NG-14 (October 2nd at 01:16:14)
  2. Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L12 (October 6th at 11:29:34)
  3. Long March 3B - Gaofen 13 (October 11th at 16:57)
  4. Soyuz - ISS 63S (October 14th at 05:45:04)
  5. Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L13 (October 18th at 12:25:57)
  6. Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L14 (October 22nd at 15:31:34)
  7. Soyuz - GLONASS-K (October 25th at 19:08:42)
  8. Long March 2C - Yaogan 30-07 (October 26th at 15:19)
  9. Electron - In Focus (October 28th at 21:21:27)
November Launches — Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

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