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| height="30" style="background-color: #090915; color: #ffffff;" | <span style="font-size: 36px;">    </span>''Your source for news on [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight|<span style="color: #aaaaff;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span>]]''
| height="30" style="background-color: #090915; color: #ffffff; text-align: right" | Issue 1, January 2011  
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| style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 10px;" | Welcome to The Downlink
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| style="border-bottom: 1px solid #888888; padding-bottom: 10px;" | Welcome to the first full issue of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Downlink|The Downlink]], a new monthly newsletter intended to inform members of WikiProject Spaceflight about the latest developments in the project and its articles. Below you will find information about happenings within the project, our recognised content, spaceflight in the news and events needing to be covered in articles. You will also find an editorial about the first concerted effort to develop [[Wikipedia:Featured topics|featured topics]] related to spaceflight, and an article in need of your help and improvements.

''Project News'' will provide details of discussions about and changes in the organisation and structure of the project, newly recognised content, and changes in membership. ''News from Orbit'' will summarise spaceflight news and upcoming events, and list suggestions for articles in need of updating as a result. ''Article News'' will give details of requests for assistance within articles, and discussions regarding content.

All members of WikiProject Spaceflight are invited to contribute any content that they would like to see in the newsletter, and we would particularly welcome the submission of editorials, or an article about an area of spaceflight which you are working on, or particularly interested in. Please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Downlink|The Downlink]] page for more details.
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| style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 10px;" | Project News
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| style="border-bottom: 1px solid #888888; padding-bottom: 10px;" | 
A new working group has been formed. The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Space stations working group|space stations working group]] is expected to work towards creating [[Wikipedia:Featured topics|Featured topics]] related to [[space station]]s. It currently has three members.

Discussion within the project is still dominated by the reorganisation proposals. A discussion over the formation and roles of working groups and task forces has led to some clarification regarding working groups, however the roles of the task forces remain vague, and several proposals to abolish them have surfaced. The Human Spaceflight to-do list has been merged into the main project to-do list, with the combined list currently located on the [[Portal:Spaceflight/Tasks|Tasks page]] of the [[Portal:Spaceflight|Spaceflight portal]].

A discussion regarding opening relations with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Aerospace biography task force|the Aerospace biography task force]] of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation]] was held, but no conclusions were reached. The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Article alerts|Article Alerts]] bot has resumed operation, and a problem with the information the bot had been delivering was discussed and resolved.

New assessment criteria for importance and quality have been implemented, and refinements continue to be made to the importance scale. The scope of the project was redefined to exclude astronomical objects explicitly. Although A-class criteria have been defined, a review process is yet to be discussed or implemented.

[[User:Colds7ream|Colds7ream]] conducted an analysis of open tasks related to the reorganisation which four major issues remain unresolved: Discussion concerning the existence and roles of task forces within the project; recruitment of new editors; updating guidelines and whether the project or the task forces should be responsible for maintaining them; and the continued existence of the [[Portal:Human spaceflight|Human spaceflight portal]] six weeks after consensus was reached to abolish it.

Discussion about the structure of the project is ongoing, with several proposals currently on the table. One proposal calls for the abolition of task forces in favour of increased emphasis on working groups, whilst another calls for the task forces to become a list of topics. The idea of a formal collaboration system has been suggested, however opposition has been raised.

One of the main open tasks at the moment is replacing the older {{tl|WikiProject Space}} and {{tl|WikiProject Human spaceflight}} banners with the new {{tl|WikiProject Spaceflight}} banner. Articles which need to be retagged are currently listed in [[:Category:WikiProject Spaceflight articles using deprecated project tags]]. [[User:ChiZeroOne|ChiZeroOne]] is doing a very good job replacing them, but as of the morning of 31 December, there are still 1,424 left to be converted. Additionally, the implementation of a new B-class checklist built into the template has necessitated the reassessment of former B-class articles, which the template has automatically classified as C-class.
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| style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 10px;" | News from Orbit
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| style="border-bottom: 1px solid #888888; padding-bottom: 10px;" | On 3 December, [[USA-212]], the first [[Boeing X-37|X-37B]], landed at [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]] after a successful mission. On 5 December [[Proton-M]] with a [[Blok DM-03]] upper stage failed to place three [[Glonass-M]] satellites into orbit, the first of three failures in less than forty eight hours. The [[NanoSail-D2]] spacecraft was supposed to have been ejected from [[FASTSAT]] in the early hours of the next morning, however it does not appear to have separated. Finally the [[Akatsuki (probe)|Akatsuki]] spacecraft failed to enter orbit around [[Venus]] in the evening of 6 December. The Proton launch was the maiden flight of the [[Blok DM-03]], which does not currently have an article.

On 8 December the [[Dragon C1]] demonstration mission was conducted, with the [[SpaceX Dragon]] making a little under two orbits of the Earth on its maiden flight, before landing in the Pacific Ocean to complete a successful mission. The [[Falcon 9]] rocket which launched the Dragon spacecraft also deployed eight [[CubeSat]]s: [[SMDC-ONE 1]], [[QbX-1]], [[QbX-2]], [[Perseus 000]], [[Perseus 001]], [[Perseus 002]], [[Perseus 003]] and [[Mayflower (satellite)|Mayflower]]. The CubeSats do not currently have articles.

On 15 December, a [[Soyuz-FG]] launched [[Soyuz TMA-20]] to the [[International Space Station]], carrying three members of the [[Expedition 26]] crew. It docked two days later. The Soyuz TMA-20 article is currently short, and could use improvements to bring it up to the same level as articles for US manned spaceflights. On 17 December, a [[Long March 3A]] launched [[Compass-IGSO2]]. There is currently no article for this satellite.

17 December saw [[Intelsat]] regain control of the [[Galaxy 15]] satellite, which had been out of control since a malfunction in April. The Galaxy 15 article is in need of serious cleanup and a good copyedit. On 25 December a [[Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle|GSLV Mk.I]] failed to place [[GSAT-5P]] into orbit. A Proton-M with a [[Briz-M]] upper stage successfully launched [[KA-SAT]] on 26 December. Barring any suborbital launches at the end of the month which have not yet been announced (a NASA [[Black Brant (rocket)|Black Brant]] was scheduled for December but does not appear to have flown), [[2010 in spaceflight]] concluded on 29 December when an [[Ariane 5]]ECA launched the [[Hispasat-1E]] and [[Koreasat 6]] spacecraft. These do not currently have articles.

Four launches are currently scheduled to occur in January 2011. A [[Delta IV]] Heavy is expected to launch [[NRO L-49]] on 17 January. The satellite is expected to be an [[KH-12|Improved Crystal]] electro-optical imaging spacecraft. Two launches are planned for 20 January, with [[Kounotori 2]], the second [[H-II Transfer Vehicle]], being launched by an [[H-IIB]], and the [[Zenit-3F]] making its maiden flight to deploy [[Elektro-L No.1]], the first Russian geostationary weather satellite to be launched since 1994. On 28 January [[Progress M-09M]] will be launched by a [[Soyuz-U]]. 28 January will also be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|loss]] of the {{OV|099}} on mission [[STS-51-L]].
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It was requested that the article [[Walter Haeussermann]] be expanded. Haeussermann, a member of the von Braun rocket group, died on 8 December. Although the article has been updated following his death, a user requested that more information about the engineer be added. Another user requested that the articles [[Commercial Space Launch Act]] and [[Launch Services Purchase Act]] be created, to cover laws of the United States concerning spaceflight.

Articles related to methods of taking-off and landing were discussed. The term [[VTVL]] currently has an article whilst [[VTHL]] and [[HTHL]] do not. It was suggested that the existing article should be merged, and each term be covered by the article for the equivalent aviation term, however some distinction between use in the fields of aviation and spaceflight should remain.

Concern was raised that a [[commons:Commons:Deletion requests/All images from the Remote Sensing Tutorial from NASA Goddard Space Center|large scale deletion request]] could cause many images to be lost from articles, help was requested to investigate whether any of the images were not subject to copyright, or if they were then whether they could be uploaded to the English Wikipedia under a claim of fair use.

Concerns were raised about a large amount of content in the newly-created article [[deorbit of Mir]] duplicating existing content in existing Good Article [[Progress M1-5]]. A proposal to merge deorbit of Mir into Progress M1-5 was made, however objections were raised, and discussion has since stalled without reaching a consensus. It has also been requested that the article [[Mir]] be copyedited.

The existence of separate categories for "spaceflight" and "space exploration" has been questioned, with a suggestion that some of the exploration categories, including [[:Category:Space exploration]] iteslf, should be merged into their spaceflight counterparts.

[[Missile Range Instrumentation Ship]] is currently listed at [[WP:requested moves|requested moves]], with a proposal to rename it [[tracking ship]]. The only open [[WP:good article nominations|good article nomination]] is of the book [[Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet]], which is currently awaiting review.
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| style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 10px;" | Editorial – Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics
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| style="border-bottom: 1px solid #888888; padding-bottom: 10px;" | There has recently been much talk about trying to increase the activity of the project. To this end, a major reorganisation effort has been undertaken, which has seen the space WikiProjects separated into the Astronomy, Solar System and Spaceflight groups, with WikiProject Space being abolished. We have also seen the child projects of WikiProject Spaceflight being abolished, with Timeline of Spaceflight becoming a working group, and the Unmanned and Human Spaceflight projects becoming task forces for now, with some suggestions that they should be abolished outright. The problem with the previous structure was that there were too many different groups of editors, and nobody was sure which projects were supposed to be doing what. Now there is only one project, this is somewhat clearer, but spaceflight is still a huge topic.

Another way to improve the activity of the project is to attract more editors. Spaceflight is a topic which many people have at least a very casual interest in, and therefore it is strange that there are only about four or five people regularly participating in discussions on the project talk page. Evidently action is needed to raise the profile of the project.

One way in which the project's profile can be raised is to have a major success associated with it. The creation of a featured topic could be one such success, and would also be hugely beneficial to articles in the area that it relates to. Space Stations are one of the most high-profile and notable areas of spaceflight, and are therefore a logical choice to spearhead such an initiative.

To this end, in late December a working group was established to concentrate and coordinate efforts to establish featured topics related to space stations. An initial proposal calls for topics on [[Skylab]], [[Salyut program|Salyut]], [[Mir]] and the [[International Space Station]], as well as one on space stations in general. There is currently an effort to get [[Mir]] promoted to Good Article status; the article currently requires a copyedit, after which it will be sent for peer review and then to GAN.

This is by no means a short-term project. There are many articles, particularly for the larger space stations such as the ISS and Mir, which are currently nowhere near becoming recognised content. Skylab is the smallest of the proposed featured topics, but it still requires that three C-class articles, two Start-class articles and a redirect all reach at least Good Article status, with at least three becoming Featured Articles. The ISS topic is so large that it may have to be subdivided.

I don't expect that we will have any featured topics by the end of the year, but I believe that a Good Topic, which requires all articles reach at least GA status, but does not require any featured articles, may be possible. I also believe that several articles on the subject can easily be improved to Good Article status, and some articles may be at featured level by the end of the year. In the long term, having featured topics will benefit the project and its content.
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| style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 10px;" | Selected Article – Salyut 2
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| style="border-bottom: 1px solid #888888; padding-bottom: 10px;" | '''[[Salyut 2]]''' was an early space station, launched in 1973 as part of the [[Salyut program|Salyut]] and [[Almaz]] programmes. It malfunctioned two days after launch, and consequently was never visited by a manned [[Soyuz programme|Soyuz]] mission.

The Salyut 2 article describes the station:
{{Cquote|'''Salyut 2 (OPS-1)'''({{langx|ru|Салют-2}}; {{langx|en|Salute 2}}) was launched April 4, 1973. It was not really a part of the same program as the other [[Salyut]] [[space station]]s, instead being the highly classified prototype military space station [[Almaz]]. It was given the designation Salyut 2 to conceal its true nature. Despite its successful launch, within two days the as-yet-unmanned Salyut 2 began losing pressure and its flight control failed; the cause of the failure was likely due to shrapnel piercing the station when the discarded [[Proton (rocket)|Proton rocket]] upper stage that had placed it in orbit later exploded nearby. On April 11, 1973, 11 days after launch, an unexplainable accident caused the two large solar panels to be torn loose from the space station cutting off all power to the space station. Salyut 2 re-entered on May 28, 1973.}}

The article is currently assessed as start class, and is in need of attention. It consists of the above paragraph, along with a list of specifications and an infobox. The article needs to be rewritten in a more encyclopaedic style, and with more information about the space station. It has not yet been determined whether Salyut 2 would have to be included in a featured topic about the Salyut programme, or whether since it was never manned it is less integral to the topic, however if its inclusion were necessary then in its current form it would be a major impediment to this. ''Downlink'' readers are encouraged to improve this article, with a view to getting it to B-class and possibly a viable Good Article candidate by the end of the month.
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