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Rocket Lab

There is an open request for comment at Talk:Rocket Lab regarding how to describe the nationality of the company. Input from knowledgeable space flight editors would be appreciated. Grey Wanderer (talk)

Addition of mass to orbit ?

I was wondering if we could add a (short) section on mass to orbit by rocketclass and/or country? This is considered a key metric for human space exploration. Additionally we could track the change (hopefully increase of the mass) over the years. Dg21dg21 (talk) 16:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Strong agree that this would be a useful addition Jess_Riedel (talk) 21:18, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree with that idea except for one minor issue. There are many launches where little information is made public about the payload sent into orbit - and that includes their mass.

While in some cases it might be possible to estimate the maximum mass of the payload due to what is know about the capabilities of the launch vehicle although that also assumes that the launch provider has not made any upgrades to the launch vehicle or changed the procedures that might have allowed that particular vehicle to increase it's maximum payload to a targeted orbit.

A third issue that might apply in mass produced satellites is that the manufacturer might have optimized the design and reduced the weight of their satellites - and not made those changes public. AmigaClone (talk) 22:29, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Changing

I am renaming SLV to ILV meaning Indian launch vehicle slv rocket disambiguation notic even says this article is about an Indian launch vehicle. 122.187.144.98 (talk) 16:33, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

They started ditching S in LVM3 122.187.144.98 (talk) 16:37, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

please @Torlek take a moment and read the history of isro launchers. There was an slv-3 rocket for a long time then aslv pslv gslv, lvm3 came but Every rocket is slv "ilv" for Indian (or ISRO if private launchers are in this year) launch vehicles Indian Rockets are independent and inspired of each other they don't belong to one family. So you mean naro 1 and 2 (kslv) are indian. I organised a discussion at the talk page by name changing, noresponse RIP B1058 (talk) 10:16, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lunar exploration category

I believe that a Lunar exploration category should be added in order to stay consistent with previous articles and for a better reading experience. 2006 Opel Meriva (talk) 14:01, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

One Falcon 9 launch missing?

Stats show 90 Falcon 9 launches this year, when there should be 91 (counted them manually, checked other sites, SpaceX announced 96 successful launches in 2023: 91 F9, 5 FH). Assuming everything else is correct Vandenberg total should be 30, US total 116 and grand total 223. Berkut88 (talk) 13:25, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]