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"Launch status check" Wikipedia Entry
Someone please help edit Launch status check? I got the ball rolling. Radical Mallard 6:36 PM EST, April 2, 2009

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Merge (2018) Spacefaring
Per the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spaceflight, a lot of the material at Spacefaring duplicates Spaceflight, so should be merged here. Thoughts? — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk)
 * Support as the suggestor. :-)  -PopSci (talk) 19:17, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support Jim.henderson (talk) 23:51, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment at talk:Spacefaring there's a suggestion to move that page to List of spacefaring nations -- 65.94.42.219 (talk) 17:15, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The merge can take place, which does not stop such list to be created. Rowan Forest (talk) 18:41, 20 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment There was an earlier discussion in 2008 about just this matter. See -- 65.94.42.219 (talk) 04:06, 12 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Support: Per nom. —Yours sincerely, Soumyabrata (contributions • subpages) 13:45, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Spaceflight is achieved by spacefaring capability. Both articles overlap significantly in content and can be covered in the same article. Rowan Forest (talk) 18:37, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 06:23, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Leaving orbit: original research
This text is not supported by any citation, and in fact is wrong:

This is nonsense, which was first added by an electrical engineer (not an expert in spaceflight). The amount of energy required for an "escape" mission is not determined by perigee, but by apogee of the "escape" orbit. (Another common misconception is that a lunar mission requires Earth escape velocity. It does not; it only requires a very high apogee which takes the craft toward the Moon.) A trajectory sufficient for translunar or interplanetary flight should not "care" whether a parking orbit is first reached. In other words, the delta v required for the Saturn V third stage to perform a direct Apollo translunar injection should be essentially equal to the delta v into orbit, plus the delta v required for the injection from orbit (possibly subject to the Oberth effect). It has nothing to do with "perigee"; obviously the perigee of the injection orbit equals the perigee of the parking orbit; "an arbitrarily low perigee that will never be reached" is essentially meaningless. And this was not why the Apollo program chose to use the parking orbit; that was for greater control of the launch window.

I know of no reliable source documentation that says direct injection was ever considered for Apollo. What they considered was direct ascent, which is completely different and has nothing to do with translunar injection. That required a much larger rocket, because of considerations at the lunar landing side, not Earth departure. And that effect was much larger than any possible difference due to the Oberth effect at Earth departure.

The reason the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parking orbits were especially low was that the capabilities of the Saturn V were being stretched so these missions could carry a larger payload to the Moon than the prior missions did. JustinTime55 (talk) 14:20, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

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"A launch pad is a fixed structure designed to dispatch airborne vehicles. It generally consists of a launch tower and flame trench"
IMHO this is correct : A launch complex consists of a launch pad, launch tower and flame trench. Also see Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39A. OpenStreetMap definition : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:aeroway#Spaceflight Dulliman (talk) 11:34, 20 January 2023 (UTC)