Talk:2024 in spaceflight

Artemis 3 mission
I request that the Artemis 3 mission be moved with reference from NASA's office of safety and mission assurance to have Artemis 3 in October 2024. Launch date is still to be determined.
 * I moved it to October - it's only a rough plan at the moment, we can expect further delays. --mfb (talk) 08:00, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Update to this it will actually launch in September 2024 according to the update from NASA's office of safety and mission assurance with their June 7, 2021 schedule. Here is the link https://web.archive.org/web/20210614003506/https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/sma-disciplines-and-programs/smsr/smsr-intergrated-master-schedule_24feb2020aab4a269d2a865b9a1a0ff0f003ca228.pdf?sfvrsn=8290faf8_26 Eth132489 (talk) 07:38, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

ESCAPADE mission
Regarding the ESCAPADE mission to Mars, i.e. two Rocket Lab's Photon spacecrafts (named Blue and Gold respectively) to be launched on a rideshare flight. I'm not sure about how the two spacecrafts should be called in the list: right now it's "ESCAPADE Blue" and "ESCAPADE Gold", but ESCAPADE is the name of the mission and not of the spacefrafts, and in all the previous flights (e.g. Photon Pathfinder and Photon First Light in 2020) they've been listed as Photon spacefrafts. On the other hand in the case of missions like the Artemis ones or the ISS resupply ones the spacecrafts that carry out the missions are listed among the payloads using the mission names. Does anyone know how to handle these problems?--Fm3dici97 (talk) 17:01, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Splitting the page
I think it is about time to split the page in two because it is very difficult to load on my phone. I do not have the experience to do so but if somebody would consider doing this it will be much appreciated. 109.78.246.101 (talk) 10:35, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Was just a matter of time I guess. We can use the same split as for 2021-2023 again. --mfb (talk) 17:43, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Possible but once you copy the code of orbital launches then on pasting at a location your system will hang. Do it in pc (i lack). 122.187.144.98 (talk) 17:19, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * @Mfb Draft:List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2024, Draft:2024 in spaceflight (July–December) Draft:2024 in spaceflight (January–June) Draft:List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024 are ready. Please ask someone to approve it. 122.187.144.98 (talk) 03:25, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * So please update them while this page updation 122.187.144.98 (talk) 03:45, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Last updation used was https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2024_in_spaceflight&oldid=1191541218 122.187.144.98 (talk) 04:37, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I think everything is moved.Naraht (talk) 16:04, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

"Latest Launch"
When addressing the "Latest Launch" section of the "Spaceflight Infobox", should UTC time be used or the local time zone from where that launch took place? WalkingWiki686 (talk) 02:00, 3 February 2024 (UTC)


 * All launch times should be in UTC. AmigaClone (talk) 02:49, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Time in space world record
So this year Oleg Kononenko broke the world record for cumulative time spent in space. Wanted to add it under human spaceflight but I'm unsure whether it's considered relevant for this page? Tokemich (talk) 21:46, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * One sentence describing it would be fine, other year in spaceflight pages have noted space population and demographic milestones. Astrofreak92 (talk) 23:08, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Iranian Space Suborbital
How does it say Iran has 120 suborbital launches? Are we counting ICBMs now or something?(I have since edited this) Puffy310 (talk) 02:41, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * This page and related pages do count ICBMs, they are suborbital launches just with military instead of scientific or commercial payloads.Astrofreak92 (talk) 16:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Launch cadence
Why would it be considered notable the fact that this year has already surpassed the number of launches in 2014? The number of launches that year in itself is not very notable with one exception. 2014 was the first time since 1994 that there were 91 or more orbital launch attempts in a single year. More notable might be 2004 and 2005 when there were only 55 launch attempts each of those years.

There is a span of 26 consecutive years (1965 to 1990 inclusive) that saw over 100 successful orbital launch attempts each year, with a then record of 141 launches set in 1967. AmigaClone (talk) 08:59, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Firefly Alpha needs to be added
according to the company, they are intending to launch Firefly Alpha again this month, however, the Alpha vehicle is not included in the statistics at the bottom of the page, could someone add it? source:https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1800973995765870973?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet&mx=2 73.210.30.217 (talk) 08:37, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Falcon 9 failure.
Shoundn't the Starlink Group 9-3 flight be considered a complete failure since none of the 20 satellites on board were able to reach a stable orbit and begin standard operations? 2006 Opel Meriva (talk) 13:08, 17 July 2024 (UTC)