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• On 13 November, the ESCAPADE spacecraft SIMPLEx-4A (Blue) and SIMPLEx-4B (Gold) were launched on board a New Glenn rocket. They will orbit Earth at its L₂ point until the Mars transfer window opens in late 2026.
• On the second flight of New Glenn, the first stage, "Never Tell Me the Odds," landed on the drone ship Jacklyn on 13 November. This made New Glenn the first orbital-class booster capable of landing propulsively not manufactured by SpaceX.
• As a result of damage caused by space debris, China's Shenzhou 20 was rendered unusable for returning its crew back to Earth. The crew instead returned on board the Shenzhou 21 craft on 14 November, with Shenzhou 22 being launched uncrewed on 25 November to serve as a return vessel for the crew of Shenzhou 21.
• On 27 November, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31, the only launch site used by Russia to reach the ISS, was significantly damaged during the launch of Soyuz MS-28.

• The image "NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars" was promoted to Featured Media status on 23 October. It was nominated by WhatADrag07.

On 28 October, 2014, Cygnus Orb-3 was launched at 22:22:38 UTC. 15 seconds after liftoff, one of the launch vehicle's AJ26 (modified NK-33s) ruptured, resulting in the craft falling. The mission was scrubbed eight seconds later at 22:23:01 UTC. The subsequent investigation found that the liquid oxygen turbopump exploded, severing nearby propellant lines. This resulted in a fire that damaged various engine components. The cause of the LOX turbopump's failure remains unknown.

New Members:

• Hal Nordmann (1 October)
• R-Beepy (3 November)

October–November Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here.

1. Long March 8A — 9 Guowang (16 Oct. at 01:33:00) (success)
2. H3-24W — HTV-X1, various cubeSats (26 Oct. at 00:00:15) (success)
3. Long March 2F/G — Shenzhou 21 (31 Oct. at 15:44:00) (success)
4. LVM3 — GSAT-7R (2 Nov. at 11:56:00) (success)
5. New Glenn — ESCAPADE Blue and Gold (13 Nov. at 20:55:01) (success)
6. Atlas V 551 — Viasat 3 EMEA (14 Nov. at 03:04:00) (success)
7. Soyuz-2.1a — Soyuz MS-28 (27 Nov. at 09:27:57) (successful launch; spaceport damaged)

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	12	27	33	57		2	131
B	16	77	196	234		5	528
C	45	170	606	834	1	56	1,712
Start	15	134	1,025	2,690		480	4,344
Stub		5	196	1,981		278	2,460
List	11	119	108	236	1	42	517
Category					1,280		1,280
Disambig					48		48
File					262		262
Portal					55		55
Project					109		109
Redirect		2	43	143	1,246		1,434
Template					532		532
NA					2		2
Other			1		31		32
Assessed	107	565	2,229	6,188	3,691	863	13,643
Unassessed				9		118	127
Total	107	565	2,229	6,197	3,691	981	13,770

Since September 2025, there are one more high-importance, three more mid-importance, 56 more low-importance, eleven more eight NA-importance, and 42 more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 113 more articles. There are also eight more B-class articles, 43 more C-class articles, 28 more Start-class articles, 25 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.

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• The International Space Station's eight compartments were fully occupied for the first time on 1 December, with the rebirthing of Cygnus NG-23 to Unity.
• On 3 December, China's Zhuque-3 made the first non-American attempt at landing a booster. The booster failed to land following a landing-burn anomaly. A second attempt on the 23rd, this time using the new Long March 2A launch vehicle, also failed.
• On 6 December, contact with NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter was lost. The last received telemetry was from the 4th, with the fragmented transmission of the 6th suggesting that the craft was rotating in an unintended way, and possibly having changed orbit. As of 16 January 2026, the mission has not yet been officially ended, although reestablishing communications with MAVEN is considered highly improbable.

• The article "Gordon Cooper" was promoted to Featured Article status on 9 December. It was nominated by Hawkeye7.

STS-116 was the 33rd mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Launched in the late evening of 6 December, the main aims of the mission were the installation of one of the International Space Station's Integrated Truss Structure segments, rewiring of the power system, and personnel exchange. Also known as ISS-12A.1, STS-116 was the first mission to include a Swedish astronaut, Christer Fuglesang. It returned to Earth in the evening of 22 December.

This image, of the first of three EVA sessions, was taken on the fourth day of the mission. Flight engineer Robert Curbeam is on the left, opposite mission specialist 3 Christer Fuglesang. The image was taken over New Zealand; the South Island is visible on the left, while the southern portion of the North Island, mostly consisting of the Wairarapa region, is visible in the top-right.

New Members: none

December Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See the complete list here.

1. Zhuque-3 — no payload (3 Dec. at 04:00) (success)
2. HANBIT-NANO — various (22 Dec. at 12:45) (launch failure)
3. Long March 12A — mass simulator (23 Dec. at 02:00:00) (success)
4. LVM3 — BlueBird-6 (24 Dec. at 03:25:30) (success)
5. Soyuz-2.1b (1st stage), Fregat-M (2nd stage) — various (28 Dec. at 13:18:05) (success)

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	29	15	8			59
FL		3	4	4			11
FM					124		124
A	1		2	1			4
GA	12	26	33	57		2	130
B	16	78	195	234		5	528
C	45	169	609	847	1	57	1,728
Start	15	134	1,024	2,698		493	4,364
Stub		5	196	1,988		282	2,471
List	11	119	109	238	1	43	521
Category					1,281		1,281
Disambig					48		48
File					262		262
Portal					55		55
Project					109		109
Redirect		2	43	141	1,246		1,432
Template					532		532
NA					2		2
Other					32		32
Assessed	107	565	2,230	6,216	3,693	882	13,693
Unassessed				10		119	129
Total	107	565	2,230	6,226	3,693	1,001	13,822

Since November 2025, there are one more mid-importance, 29 more low-importance, two more NA-importance, and 20 more unknown-importance class articles, for a total of 52 more articles. There are also one more FA-class articles, one less GA-class articles, ten more C-class articles, 20 more Start-class articles, eleven more Stub-class articles, and four more lists.

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• NASA called off a planned spacewalk of SpaceX Crew-11 on 8 January, and later cancelled the mission outright, after one of the crewmembers, Mike Fincke, was reported to have a medical complication. This was the first time that this occurred in US history.
• On 11 January, the Pandora spacecraft was successfully launched. Pandora is designed to study the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets, with the intention of identifying targets for future observation.

Pictured here are two titans of spaceflight history: Dr. Wernher von Braun, one of the main figures of the early American space program and designer of both the Saturn V and V-2 rockets, and five (four visible) Rocketdyne F-1 engines, used on the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle. Dr. von Braun's career is noted for a great number of achievements in human spaceflight, including the Apollo mission which successfully put human beings on the moon; nevertheless, it is burdened with the shadow of his activities in the Nazi Party, especially concerning his work on the V-2.

The engines behind him, in addition to being immense, have the honor of being the only engines used to get humans to the moon, as of the time of writing. Developed in the late 1950s, the 8,400 kilograms (18,500 lb) engines are still the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid-propellant rocket ever made.

New Members:

• GiftedIceCream (24 January)

January Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a complete list here.

1. Falcon 9 Block 5 — various, including Pandora (11 Jan. at 13:44:50) (success)
2. PSLV-DL — various, including EOS-N1 and THEOS-2A (12 Jan. at 04:48:30) (launch failure)
3. Ceres-2 — various (17 Jan. at 04:05) (launch failure)

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	6	30	15	8			59
FL		3	4	4			11
FM					124		124
A	1		2	1			4
GA	12	26	34	59		2	133
B	16	77	196	236		6	531
C	44	170	607	860	1	58	1,740
Start	15	134	1,026	2,701		499	4,375
Stub		5	195	1,986		296	2,482
List	11	119	110	239	1	44	524
Category					1,282		1,282
Disambig					48		48
File					275		275
Portal					55		55
Project					109		109
Redirect		2	43	143	1,248		1,436
Template					534		534
NA					2		2
Other					34		34
Assessed	105	566	2,232	6,237	3,713	905	13,758
Unassessed		1		8		127	136
Total	105	567	2,232	6,245	3,713	1,032	13,894

Since December 2025, there are two fewer top-importance, two more high-importance, two more mid-importance, 19 more low-importance, 20 more NA-importance, and 31 more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 72 new articles. There are also three more GA-class, three more B-class, twelve more C-class, eleven more Start-class, and eleven more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.

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• The first crewed spaceflight of 2026, SpaceX Crew-12, was launched on the 13th. Four astronauts were flown to the ISS in an atypical indirect handover that was caused by the early return of Crew-11 due to a medical emergency.
• On the 14th, the ESA lost contact with PROBA-3, a dual-probe technological demonstration mission for chronographic high-precision formation flying. Specifically, the Chronograph Spacecraft lost orientation and drifted away from the Occulter.

Part of a series of photographs, this image depicts the Space Shuttle Endeavour prior to rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station as part of STS-130 in 2010. It was taken from the station by a member of Expedition 22 when the ISS was 183 nautical miles above the South Pacific, off the coast of southern Chile. Earth is in the bottom-left; the orange part of the atmosphere is the troposphere, the white band in the middle is the stratosphere, and the blue section is the mesosphere.

New Members: none

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

1. Proton-M/DM-03 — Elektro–L №5, Jam-e-Jam 1 (12 Feb. at 08:52:15) (success)
2. Vulcan Centaur VC4S — GSSAP-7/-8, USA-584 (12 Feb. at 09:22:00) (success)

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	6	30	15	8			59
FL		3	4	4			11
FM					124		124
A	1		2	1			4
GA	12	26	34	59		2	133
B	16	77	196	238		7	534
C	44	170	609	868	1	61	1,753
Start	15	134	1,026	2,713		503	4,391
Stub		5	194	1,976		297	2,472
List	11	119	111	242	1	44	528
Category					1,284		1,284
Disambig					48		48
File					274		274
Portal					55		55
Project					109		109
Redirect		2	43	141	1,248		1,434
Template					533		533
NA					2		2
Other				1	37		38
Assessed	105	566	2,234	6,251	3,716	914	13,786
Unassessed		1		9		128	138
Total	105	567	2,234	6,260	3,716	1,042	13,924

Since January 2026, there are two more mid-importance, fifteen more low-importance, three more NA-importance, and ten more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 30 new articles. There are also three more B-class, thirteen more C-class, sixteen more Start-class, and ten fewer Stub-class articles, and four more lists.

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• On 22 March, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 was used for the first time since being damaged in November 2025. Progress MS-33, a resupply mission to the ISS, was launched from the site following substantial repairs.
• ESA launched the first two satellites in the Celeste constellation on 28 March. They were launched aboard a Electron launch vehicle, marking the first time ESA has used the vehicle.
• China's Qingzhou cargo spacecraft was tested for the first time on 30 March. Launched on the maiden flight of the Kinetica 2, the prototype performed a number of tests in coordination with another satellite.

New Members: Swedmark111 (26 March)

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

1. Alpha Block 1 — ICOR SV (11 Mar. at 00:50:00) (success)
2. Soyuz-2.1a — Progress MS-33 (22 Mar. at 11:59:51) (success)
3. Rocket Lab Electron — Celeste IOD-1/-2 (28 Mar. at 09:14:00) (success)
4. Kinetica 2 — New March 01/02, TS 01 (30 Mar. at 11:00:00) (success)

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	6	30	15	8			59
FL		3	4	4			11
FM					124		124
A	1		2	1			4
GA	12	26	34	59		3	134
B	16	77	196	239		7	535
C	44	170	609	875	1	68	1,767
Start	15	134	1,026	2,724		511	4,410
Stub		5	194	1,974		298	2,471
List	11	119	111	244	1	45	531
Category					1,285		1,285
Disambig					48		48
File					274		274
Portal					55		55
Project					109		109
Redirect		2	43	142	1,250		1,437
Template					533		533
NA					2		2
Other					45		45
Assessed	105	566	2,234	6,270	3,727	932	13,834
Unassessed		1		6		121	128
Total	105	567	2,234	6,276	3,727	1,053	13,962

Since February 2026, there are 16 more Low-importance, eleven more NA-importance, and eleven more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 38 new articles. There are also one more GA-class, one more B-class, 14 more C-class, 19 more Start-class, one fewer Stub-class articles, and three more lists.

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• Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17, was launched on 1 April. During the lunar flyby, it became the furthest spaceflight in human history on the 6th. Integrity, the re-entry vehicle, splashed down southwest of San Diego on the 11th.
• On 8 April, the first satellites of the Celeste (LEO-PNT) constellation began broadcasting navigation signals for the first time.

The image "STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery after undocking" was promoted to Featured Media status on 30 April. It was nominated by Moonreach.

A demonstration of weightlessness by astronaut Clayton Anderson, particularly its effect on liquids. The water's surface tension keeps it in a sphere, which here results in the light reflecting off of Anderson being refracted in such a way that it appears upside-down. It is only upside-down relative to Anderson, as there is no "up" or "down" in a weightless environment beyond convention.

New Members:

• DevonHalDraedle (10 April)
• SpooklesMan (11 April)
• Kr0ndstat (15 April)
• JerryAkpan5001 (15 April)
• ParanormalCaramel (16 April)
• Nicknme (21 April)
• AZenit3 (30 April)

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

1. Space Launch System Block 1 — various, including Artemis II (1 Apr. at 22:35:12) (success)
2. Tianlong-3 — unknown (3 Apr. at 04:17:00) (launch failure)
3. New Glenn — BlueBird 7 (19 Apr. at 11:25:00) (launch failure)
4. Falcon 9 Block 5 — USA-585 (21 Apr. 06:53:00) (success)

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	6	30	15	8			59
FL		3	4	4			11
FM					124		124
A	1		2	1			4
GA	12	26	34	58		3	133
B	16	78	196	242		8	540
C	44	170	613	894	1	78	1,800
Start	15	133	1,023	2,727		510	4,408
Stub		5	193	1,973		323	2,494
List	11	119	111	244	1	48	534
Category					1,280		1,280
Disambig					47		47
File					277		277
Portal					55		55
Project					108		108
Redirect		2	42	145	1,259		1,448
Template					533		533
NA					1		1
Other				1	45		46
Assessed	105	566	2,233	6,297	3,731	970	13,902
Unassessed		1		7		110	118
Total	105	567	2,233	6,304	3,731	1,080	14,020

Since March 2026, there are one fewer Mid-importance, 28 more Low-importance, four more NA-importance, and 27 more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 58 new articles. There are also one fewer GA-class, five more B-class, 33 more C-class, two fewer Start-class, 23 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.

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• On 15 May, NASA's Psyche flew 4,500 kilometres (2,800 mi) above the surface of Mars while performing a gravity assist.
• SMILE was launched on 19 May. A joint mission of ESA and CAS, SMILE aims to study the effects of solar wind on Earth's magnetosphere.
• On 22 May, Starship flight test 12 was performed. This was the first use of both the Block 3 and Starbase's second launch pad.
• The ICARUS Initiative launched the first of its ICARUS 2.0 constellation's satellites on 3 May. The satellite, named RAVEN, was constructed by EnduroSat, and is built to track animal migrations.

This graphic is an exploded view of the Integrated Truss Structure, the long segment that has the ISS' distinctive solar panels. The first piece, Z1, was installed in October 2000, while the most recent addition, S6, being installed in October 2007; the current configuration of the ITS dates to June 2023. In addition to providing electricity via the solar panels, the ITS is the location of energy storage, with battery assemblies on the P4/6 and S4/6 segments. These each consist of 24 lithium-ion batteries, for a total of 96 batteries.

New Members:

• ThePrehistoricBlob12345 (19 May)
• RockyKT (21 May)
• A Random Hylian (21 May)
• Analemnas (26 May)
• The Boat Boy (31 May)
• Doeze (31 May)

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

1. Zhuque-2E — Dingzhihua Shiyan Zaihe (14 May at 03:00:00) (success)
2. Vega C — SMILE

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	6	30	15	8			59
FL		3	4	4			11
FM					124		124
A	1		2	1			4
GA	12	26	34	58		3	133
B	17	78	197	245		8	545
C	42	171	617	904	1	76	1,811
Start	15	133	1,025	2,731		510	4,414
Stub		5	192	1,975		340	2,512
List	11	117	112	244	1	50	535
Category					1,281		1,281
Disambig					47		47
File					276		276
Portal					55		55
Project					108		108
Redirect		2	43	144	1,258		1,447
Template					534		534
NA					1		1
Other				1	47		48
Assessed	104	565	2,241	6,315	3,733	987	13,945
Unassessed				6		113	119
Total	104	565	2,241	6,321	3,733	1,100	14,064

Since April 2026, there are one fewer Top-importance, two fewer High-importance, eight more Mid-importance, 17 more Low-importance, two more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 44 new articles. There are also five more B-class, eleven more C-class, six more Start-class, 18 more Stub-class articles, and one more list.

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