Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Downlink/2020/November

The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 November 2020 — 30 November 2020
Volume 2 — Issue 2
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News!
Article of the month.

Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms.

Image of the month.

This is an image of the ISS from December 9, 2000. Almost 20 years ago, this image is one of a series of 70mm frames taken onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. With the ISS being continuously occupied for the last 20 years, this shows how the space station has developed over the years.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 94. Total number of members: 298.

November Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.


  1. United States Falcon 9 - GPS 3 SV04 (5th at 23:24:23) Success Success
  2. China Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 (6th at 3:19) Success Success
  3. China Ceres-1 - Tianqi-11 (7th at 7:12) Success Success
  4. India PSLV-DL - EOS 1 (7th at 9:41 Success Success
  5. China Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 (12th at 15:59:04) Success Success
  6. United States Atlas 5 - NROL-101 (13th at 22:32) Success Success
  7. United States Crewed mission Falcon 9 - Crew-1 (16th at 00:27:17) Success Success
  8. France Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17th at 01:52:20) Failure Failure
  9. New Zealand Electron - "Return to Sender" (20th at 01:44) Success Success
  10. United States Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21st at 17:71:08) Success Success
  11. China Long March 5 - Chang’e 5 (23rd at 20:30:12) Success Success
  12. United States Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25th at 02:13:12) Success Success
  13. Japan H-IIA - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29th at 7:25) Success Success

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


  • Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2
  • Soyuz - Gonets M
  • Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21
  • Long March 11 - GECAM
  • Falcon 9 - Turksat 5A
  • Soyuz - Progress 77P
  • Angara A5 - Test Flight
  • Electron - The Owl's Night Begins
  • PSLV-XL - CMS 1
  • Soyuz - OneWeb 4
  • LauncherOne - ELaNa 20
  • Long March 8 - XJY 7
  • Soyuz - CSO 2
  • Delta 4 Heavy - NROL-44
  • Delta IV Heavy - NROL-82
  • Falcon 9 - NROL-108
  • Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16
  • Falcon 9 - SXM 7
  • SSLV - Demonstration Launch
Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 30 November 2020

Monthly Changes

Since October, 43 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There has been 2 more images which have reached FM class, both GA and B classes have 1 more article. 5 more lists have been added to the project. While 25 articles have been improved to C class as well as 24 articles reaching start class and 5 new articles added to stub class.

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