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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2025
1 — 31 July
Volume 3 — Issue 7
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News
  • The first launch attempt of an Australian-made rocket, Gilmour Space Technologies' Eris-1, was made on 29/30 July. The launch vehicle crashed 14 seconds after launch due to insufficient thrust.
  • The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite launched on 30 July. The first radar imaging that uses dual frequencies, it is a joint project between NASA and ISRO, and believed to cost ~US$1.5 billion, making it one of the most expensive Earth-imaging satellites.
Featured Content
Article of the month
Artist's conception of AREE on the surface of Venus, showing the wind turbine inside the rover's frame.

Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project to design a rover that can operate in the environment of Venus, controlled by a wind-powered mechanical computer. Venus's atmosphere is about 90 times denser than Earth's and the surface temperature is at least 462 °C (864 °F), conditions which would prevent a standard electronic computer from operating for any significant period of time. While AREE is being designed for operation on Venus, the rover's design could be re-purposed for use on Mercury, which has a comparably high surface temperature, on Jovian moons Europa or Io, where high radiation makes use of traditional electronics difficult, or on lava flows or highly radioactive areas on Earth.

The project was first proposed in 2015, and funded by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program with a phase-I study in 2016, and a phase-II study from 2017 to 2018.

Image of the month
Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the Moon

In July of 1969, Apollo 11 successfully fulfilled John F. Kennedy's goal of a person landing on, and returning from, the moon before the 1970s. Taking off on 16 July, the lunar lander, Eagle, touched down on the evening of the 20th (UTC). Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin exited the lander six hours later, becoming the first men on the moon. The pair stayed on the lunar surface for about 21 hours. This image is actually the second of a pair of images, taken by Aldrin so that the lunar surface's ability to bear weight could be measured.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 213. Total number of members: 439.

June Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here.

  1. China Long March 4C — Shiyan 28B-01 (3 Jul. at 09:35) (success)
  2. Russia Soyuz-2.1a — Progress MS-31 (3 Jul. at 19:31) (success)
  3. United StatesIsrael Falcon 9 Block 5 — Dror-1 (PR-8000) (13 Jul. at 05:04) (success)
  4. China Hyperbola-1 — Kunpeng-03 (Enshi Xidou Shanquan/HS-9) (29 Jul. at 04:10) (success)
  5. Australia Eris Block 1 — Jar of Vegemite (29 Jul. at 21:30) (launch failure)
  6. China Long March 8A — 9 Guowang (30 Jul. at 07:49) (success)
  7. IndiaUnited States GSLV Mark II — NISAR (30 Jul. at 12:10) (success)
 Article Statistics
This data reflects values from 31 July 2025.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 28 15 8 58
FL 3 4 4 11
FM 124 124
A 1 2 1 4
GA 11 26 33 57 2 129
B 15 85 201 224 4 529
C 45 162 588 788 40 1,623
Start 16 140 1,019 2,603 461 4,239
Stub 7 204 2,035 247 2,493
List 10 120 109 236 1 36 512
Category 1,270 1,270
Disambig 47 47
File 222 222
Portal 55 55
Project 109 109
Redirect 2 42 134 1,248 1,426
Template 528 528
NA 1 1
Other 25 25
Assessed 105 573 2,217 6,090 3,630 790 13,405
Unassessed 10 130 140
Total 105 573 2,217 6,100 3,630 920 13,545
Monthly Changes

Since June 2025, there are seven fewer high-importance, six new mid-importance, three new low-importance, three new NA-importance, and 29 new unknown-importance articles, for a total of 34 more articles. There is also one GA-class article, three more B-class articles, three more C-class articles, 18 more Start-class articles, two fewer Stub-class articles, and one fewer lists.

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2025
1 — 31 August
Volume 3 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News
Article of the month

NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is a high-resolution Earth observation satellite developed by OHB Italia for the Luxembourg Directorate of Defence as part of the Luxembourg Earth Observation System (LUXEOSys). Designed for dual-use governmental and military purposes, NAOS provides very high-resolution optical imagery for applications in defense, security, and humanitarian efforts, supporting organizations such as NATO, European Union, and the United Nations. The satellite was launched on August 26, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

NAOS will be operated by LUXEOPs, consortium consisting of RHEA System Luxembourg, LUXSPACE, OHB and RHEA System.

Image of the month
Apollo 15 Lunar Module

Launched on 26 July, 1971, Apollo 15 was the fourth Apollo mission to successfully land on the moon, and the first of the longer, more science-focused J Missions. Landing at Hadley–Apennine on the 30, Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin (Irwin on left) stayed on the moon's surface until 2 August, while Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden stayed in orbit, collecting a variety of data on the moon. Apollo 15 was the first mission to use the Lunar Roving Vehicle (on right), which allowed Scott and Irwin to travel farther from the Lunar Lander (center) than previously possible.

On 4 August, the lunar orbiter departed from orbit at the end of Apollo 15's 74th lunar orbit. On the 5, Worden performed an EVA which lasted 39 minutes. This was the first of three deep-space EVAs, all performed during J Missions. The command module landed in the North Pacific Ocean on the 7, with the command module and crew being recovered by USS Okinawa. Apollo 15 was the longest Apollo mission, lasting for a total of 12 days and 7 hours, until Apollo 17, which lasted 12 days, 13 hours, and 52 minutes.

Members

New Members: No new members

Number of active members: 213. Total number of members: 439.

August Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here.

  1. France Ariane 62 — MetOp-SG A1 (13 Aug. at 00:37) (success)
  2. United States Vulcan Centaur VC4S — NTS-3 (13 Aug. at 00:56) (success)
  3. Russia Soyuz-2.1b — Bion-M No.2 (20 Aug. at 17:13) (success)
  4. United States SpaceX Starship — 8 Starlink simulators (26 Aug. at 23:30) (success)
 Article Statistics
This data reflects values from 31 August 2025.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 28 15 8 58
FL 3 4 4 11
FM 124 124
A 1 2 1 4
GA 11 27 33 57 2 130
B 16 85 200 226 4 531
C 45 162 594 794 46 1,641
Start 16 140 1,017 2,615 463 4,251
Stub 6 203 2,022 246 2,477
List 10 119 109 236 1 37 512
Category 1,275 1,275
Disambig 48 48
File 260 260
Portal 55 55
Project 109 109
Redirect 2 42 140 1,246 1,430
Template 528 528
NA 1 1
Other 30 30
Assessed 106 572 2,219 6,103 3,677 798 13,475
Unassessed 10 129 139
Total 106 572 2,219 6,113 3,677 927 13,614
Monthly Changes

Since July 2025, there is one new top-importance, one fewer high-importance, two new mid-importance, 13 new low-importance, 47 new NA-importance, and seven new unknown-importance articles, for a total of 69 more articles. There is also one more GA-class article, two more B-class articles, 18 more C-class articles, 12 more Start-class articles, and 16 fewer Stub-class articles.

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