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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 March 2021 — 31 March 2021
Volume 2 — Issue 6
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News!
  • On March 7 the Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode after a software error was detected. And took days until the camera was fully active again. read more
  • The Space Launch System completed a full-duration (8 minutes and 20 seconds) static fire of the core stage on March 18, after an earler test in January failed to complete the test.

Featured Content


  • The Apollo 12 article was promoted to a Featured Article on March 27, 2021. After being nominated by Wehwalt who is a significant contributor to the article.
Article of the month.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories.

Image of the month.

Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee is shown at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 104. Total number of members: 316.

March Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.


  1. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17 (4th at 08:24:54) Success Success
  2. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 (11th at 08:13:29) Success Success
  3. China Long March 7A – 7A-Y2 (11th at 17:51:28) Success Success
  4. China Long March 4C – 4C-Y42 (13th at 02:19) Success Success
  5. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L21 (14th at 10:01:26) Success Success
  6. Russia Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500 1 (22nd at 06:07:12) Success Success
  7. New Zealand Electron – "They Go Up So Fast" (22nd at 22:30) Success Success
  8. United States Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L22 (24th at 08:28:24) Success Success
  9. Russia Soyuz-2.1a – OneWeb 5 (25nd at 02:47:33) Success Success
  10. China Long March 4C – 4C-Y36 (30th at 22:45) Success Success

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


Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 31 March 2021.

Monthly Changes

Since February, 28 new pages have been added to Spaceflight and Apollo 12 has been promoted to featured article! 1 more article has reached GA-class, with 1 more file, 6 more C-class, 14 more start-class and 8 new stub class articles.

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Newsletter contributors: Ninney & Terasail