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	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		2026 1 — 31 August

Volume 4 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News On 19 August, NASA scrubbed the Swift Rescue Mission after the spacecraft, LINK, suffered technical issues. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was successfully launched on 30 August. NGRST's primary missions are to study dark energy and exoplanets. In late August, NASA's Pandora telescope was fully commissioned, beginning its mission of studying the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets.
Article of the month James Woodward (physicist) James F. Woodward (1941 – August 9, 2025) was an American physicist who was professor emeritus of history and an adjunct professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton. He is best known for a physics hypothesis that he proposed in 1990, later expanded, that predicts several physical effects that he refers to as 'Mach effects'. Woodward claimed the effect could be used as a reactionless drive for space travel.	Image of the month Test inflation of PAGEOS, a balloon satellite The Passive Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite (PAGEOS) was the first dedicated geodetic surveying satellite. PAGEOS was the culmination of a series of balloon satellites that started in 1960 with Project Echo. These satellites were commissioned following the launch of Sputnik 1, as the United States was eager to catch up to the Soviet Union during the Space Race. Construction of PAGEOS was undertaken by the Gilmore Schjeldahl#Schjeldahl Company, founded by the same man who invented the sickness bag. This image shows a test inflation of the 30 m (100 ft), 57 kg (125 lb) satellite performed on 5 August, 1965.
Members New Members: none Number of active members: 206. Total number of members: 466. August Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here. Zhuque-3 — Honghu-03 (18 Aug. at 23:35) (success) Falcon Heavy — Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (30 Aug. at 11:26:00) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 August 2026. 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 36 62 3 139 B 18 79 200 246 11 554 C 42 173 617 918 2 86 1,838 Start 14 134 1,024 2,748 531 4,451 Stub 4 192 1,972 345 2,513 List 11 117 111 250 1 50 540 Category 1,302 1,302 Disambig 47 47 File 276 276 Portal 54 54 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 44 152 1,262 1,460 Template 536 536 Other 1 35 36 Assessed 104 568 2,245 6,362 3,748 1,026 14,053 Unassessed 2 110 112 Total 104 568 2,245 6,364 3,748 1,136 14,165 Monthly Changes Since July 2026, there are one more Mid-importance, 15 more Low-importance, ten more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 46 new articles. There are also two more B-class, three more C-class, 21 more Start-class, six more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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