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	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 December 2020 — 31 December 2020

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In the News! The Chang’e 5 lander landed on the moon on December 1st, and started to gather lunar samples. The Chang’e 5 ascent module launched from the moons surface on December 3rd and later docked with the service module in lunar orbit. Hayabusa-2 has successfuly returned samples it collected from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It landed in South Australia on 5th December after a 6 year mission. SpaceX Starship SN8 completed a 12.5km flight and successfully made it back to the launch pad however was unable to slow down and hit the ground creating an impressive fireball. China becomes the third country to return samples from the moon. After the Chang'e-5 return capsule lands in Inner Mongolia at 01:59 local time on December 13th.
Article of the month. Mary Jackson Mary Jackson (née Winston, April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NACA, which was succeeded by NASA. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer.	Image of the month. With China becoming the third country to return moon samples back to earth, this is an image of the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander being worked on by Buzz Aldrin. This mission was the first time moon samples were brought back to earth. This image was taken over 51 years ago on July 21, 1969.
Members New Members: ExoEditor (Joined on the 14th December) XFalcon2004x (Joined on the 16th December) PythosIsAwesome (Joined on the 17th December) Number of active members: 97. Total number of members: 301. December Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 (2nd at 01:33:28) Success Soyuz - Gonets-M (3rd at 01:14:36) Success Chang'e 5 (3rd at 15:10) Success Long March 3B - Gaofen 14 (6th at 03:58) Success Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 (6th at 15:17:08) Success Long March 11 - GECAM (9th at 20:14) Success Delta 4 Heavy - NROL 44 (11th at 1:09) Success Falcon 9 - SXM 7 (13th at 17:20) Success Angara A5 - Test Flight (14th at 5:50:00) Success Electron - The Owl's Night Begins (15th at 10:09:27) Success Rocket 3 - Test Flight (15th at 20:55) Failure PSLV-XL - CMS1 (17th at 10:11) Success Soyuz - OneWeb 4 (18th at 12:26:26) Success Falcon 9 - NROL-108 (19th at 14:00) Success Long March 8 - XJY 7 (22nd at 04:37:37) Success Long March 4C - Yaogan 33 (27th at 15:44) Success Soyuz - CSO 2 (29th at 16:42:07) Success January Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 - Türksat 5A Falcon 9 - Transporter 1 LauncherOne - ELaNa 20 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L17 Firefly Alpha - Dream 1 Hyperbola-1 - (Second Flight) Jielong 1 - Hainan-1	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 December 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 96 96 GA 11 22 37 49 119 B 1 47 37 44 129 C 55 159 518 475 7 1,214 Start 38 158 1,124 2,207 369 3,896 Stub 8 248 2,175 225 2,656 List 14 130 78 208 430 Category 1,027 1,027 Disambig 47 47 File 196 196 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,121 1,121 Template 492 492 Other 27 1 28 Assessed 126 541 2,050 5,169 3,124 602 11,612 Unassessed 43 43 Total 126 541 2,050 5,169 3,124 645 11,655 Monthly Changes Since November, 99 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 new file, with 2 more files reaching FM class. There are 3 more articles which have reached FA class, with an increase of 2 GA class articles. 4 more lists have been added to the project. While 13 articles have been improved to C class as well as 2 articles reaching start class and 66 new articles added to stub class.
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