Talk:2020s in spaceflight

Planetery-Centric Rockets?

I believe, for the purposes of these pages, we usually count interplanetary launches as heliocentric to avoid having to clarify every time and make sorting the statistics easier. There are a couple of instances where planetary orbiters are listed with their final orbit, not their launch orbit. Why is this inconsistent for this page? Cheers! UnknownM1 (talk) 16:45, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Usually the target orbit of the spacecraft is given (see e.g. all the geosynchronous satellites, they are nearly always launched to a transfer orbit). The statistics are going by the initial orbit where the spacecraft separates from the launch vehicle. For interplanetary missions we have some strange mix - sometimes even within one month. --mfb (talk) 00:54, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I would at least attempt to keep consistency within pages. We can revise it to make it consistent. I would personally lean towards initial orbit, not final orbit. UnknownM1 (talk) 02:17, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Then nearly all the GEO satellites would have to be moved to geostationary transfer orbit. We are talking about >1000 changes if we take that seriously, and we would have to check the details in every case. I think the final orbit is more interesting in most cases. --mfb (talk) 02:50, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

new draft article

I've made Draft:2030s in spaceflight; while it's too early for a proper article on the topic, that place can serve to collect existing information if needed. Chessrat ^{(talk, contributions)} 11:05, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Deep-Space Rendezvous after 2029

I know the 2031 event has been removed before, I've reinstated it and am giving my reasoning here. Before the current setup for timeline of spaceflight articles was established, deep space rendezvous events for already launched spacecraft beyond the scope of the yearly articles were placed on the main Timeline of spaceflight article. Now that we've moved to the current setup, those rendezvous events are homeless and because they are already in motion and not subject to changing launch schedules they *should* be catalogued in an encyclopedic resource. Additional deep space missions with decade-crossing rendezvous events will launch before a 2030s article is otherwise timely, and those events cannot be relegated to a draft article. They should either be here or placed in a "Deep Space Rendezvous after 2029" section of the main timeline of spaceflight article. Astrofreak92 (talk) 06:34, 13 December 2020 (UTC)