Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Open tasks

Alerts

Today's featured articles

• 04 Apr 2026 – Apollo 6 (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Today's featured article requests

• 26 May 2026 – Sally Ride (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Hawkeye7 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 18 Mar 2026 – 2026 Cleveland meteor (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by EditorShane3456 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)

Good article nominees

• 17 Mar 2026 – Spacecraft electric propulsion (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Very Polite Person (t · c); start discussion
• 12 Oct 2025 – Vladimír Mandl (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by WatkynBassett (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Sep 2025 – ISRO (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Akshadev (t · c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 08 Mar 2026 – Cheyenne Mountain Complex (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Tokeamour (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 26 Feb 2026 – Rocketplane Limited, Inc. (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Rocketplane Global Inc. by Bearian (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 20 Dec 2025 – I-Space (Chinese company) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Aug 2020 – Common Berthing Mechanism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Sbb1413 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 12 Mar 2026 – Draft:BlackSky Technology Inc. (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Saragcg (t · c)
• 10 Mar 2026 – Draft:Starship flight test 12 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Starship V2 (t · c)
• 09 Mar 2026 – Draft:Thaicom 1 (satellite) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LionmerterTHE (t · c)
• 06 Mar 2026 – Draft:Marilyn Dudley-Rowley (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ~2026-12982-74 (t · c)
• 04 Mar 2026 – Draft:LUSAT-1 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LionmerterTHE (t · c)
• 02 Mar 2026 – Draft:ZimSat-1 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LionmerterTHE (t · c)
• 24 Feb 2026 – Draft:Tanager-2 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LionmerterTHE (t · c)
• 08 Feb 2026 – Draft:Saturn Rocket Camera Pods (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CHEESEBURGER42 (t · c)
• 04 Feb 2026 – Draft:The Challenger Learning Center of Maine (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Volfan999 (t · c)
• 04 Feb 2026 – Draft:Timothy Sands (astronautics engineer) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ~2026-77488-0 (t · c)

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Cleanup

WikiProject Spaceflight's Clean-Up Listing organizes Spaceflight articles which have various clean-up tags on them.

26 November 2024 Cleanup Report. Two years into cleanup effort. 190 total articles cleaned and 799 issues resolved (from 1 Nov. 2022). Roughly 18% reduction in issues from start in early November 2022. Not sure how active this WikiProject is with regard to the cleanup effort. Ships & Space(Edits) 17:26, 27 November 2024 (UTC) 

• There are currently 96 unreferenced Wikipedia: Spaceflight BLPs lacking sources
• There are currently 2,005 unreferenced Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles that need footnotes
• There are currently 574 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles with dead external links
• There are currently 210 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles with clarification needed
• There are currently 143 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles with vague or ambiguous time
• There are currently 113 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles that need expansion
• There are currently 590 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles with potentially dated statements
• There are currently 341 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles that need updating
• There are currently 221 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles with neutrality issues
• There are currently 146 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles that cite unreliable sources
• There are currently 194 Wikipedia: Spaceflight articles that have general references but lack inline footnotes

Templates have tracking categories that can be used to check if there are odd or invalid inputs and quickly evaluate them. Invalid inputs will not be displayed by the infobox and should be corrected or removed. The tracking categories are updated monthly. There are templates associated with spaceflight that can be checked, but some of the most popular are:

• Infobox spaceflight
• Infobox astronaut with unknown parameters category

Task List

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-02-04 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : See Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Engineering § Aeronautical/Aerospace See Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Transport § Rockets and spacecraft Assess : See Category:Unassessed spaceflight articles Infobox : See Category:Spaceflight articles needing infoboxes Stubs : See Category:Outer space stubs Update : 2020s in spaceflight