Questions tagged [status-completed]
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Make JWST a synonym of the James Webb Telescope tag
We have james-webb-telescope, but more people seem to know it as JWST. Making a synonym might help people tag their questions appropriately.
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Do we need both equipment and ground-equipment tags?
equipment 30 questions
The equipment tag has no usage guidance, can you help us create it?
ground-equipment 2 questions
The ground-equipment tag has no usage guidance, can you help us create it?
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How to determine on which questions the falcon9-r and falcon-9 tags do and don't belong?
note: I'm perplexed by the answer to Can we merge [falcon9-r] into [falcon-9]? since there still seems to be two different tags with different question counts!
There are currently 36 questions tagged ...
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Should lop-g, deep-space-gateway and gateway be synonymized? If so, to what?
We have
lop-g with 5 questions
deep-space-gateway with 18 questions
gateway with 2 questions
Which may all want to refer to the Lunar Gateway:
The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a planned ...
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Is breakthrough-starshot the best tag, and should the project-starshot tag now be a synonym for it?
We have breakthrough-starshot (3 questions) and project-starshot (8 questions) and the Wikipedia article Breakthrough Starshot says:
Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by ...
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Get rid of the old ADCS tag and either merge with attitude-control or attitude-determination-and-control?
We have had the old adcs tag since October 2016 and I think I created it. The acronym is for Attitude Determination and Control System.
Random links legitimizing the acronym
Attitude Determination ...
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Is the single-use attitude-indicator tag necessary? Should it just be synonymized with instrument?
This is about a reasonable tag that may be used so infrequently and has a good alternative that I wonder if we should cull it out of good tag hygene practice.
What order were space shuttle roll-pitch-...
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Is the [radio] tag necessary?
There are 18 questions tagged radio. I am proposing deleting it, as it is largely redundant and confused with other tags.
10 are also tagged radio-communication.
2 more are tagged radio-astronomy or ...
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Synonym [eva] and [spacewalk]
[space-walk] is already a synonym but spacewalk has 32 questions
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Do we need both "camera" and "spacecraft-cameras" tags?
camera has 71 questions, and has the guidance text "Questions about imagery devices on spacecraft and probes."
spacecraft-cameras has 26 questions, and no guidance text.
It appears that the ...
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Should the "shenzhou-11" tag be generalized to "shenzhou"?
Shenzhou is China's crewed spacecraft, derived from the Russian Soyuz. It does not yet have its own tag, but there are currently 19 questions containing "shenzhou".
Shenzhou 11 was a ...
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Ambigous tag, "modeling"
A low-power tag on the site is modeling, with a mere 12 questions.
I see at least four different usages:
3D modeling
Model rockets
Orbital mechanics.
Modeling of other phases of space-flight, such as ...
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artemiss mission and artemis program tags, do we need both? If so, how to know which one to use?
There are tags for artemis-mission (13) and artemis-program (8) and currently on both tags the message reads:
There is no usage guidance for this tag … yet!
I chose one for Demonstrative examples of ...
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'international-space-station' as a tag synonym to 'iss'?
I know this would be trivial or redundant on a site centered around space exploration, but I believe iss should have what it stands for as a tag synonym international-space-station.
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Tagging questions on Space Shuttle Columbia and STS-107
There are currently 58 search results for "Columbia" on space.se (although a few are unrelated to the orbiter), and a large amount of them refer to the Columbia disaster, on mission STS-107.
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Merge and synonymize [speed] into [velocity]
This seems like a cut and dry case of two tags that should be combined. Am I missing something?
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Merge tags delta-iv and delta4
There is a tag delta-iv (1 question) and a tag delta4 (9 questions).
I believe they should be merged with one as a synonym.
I personally think delta-iv is better than delta4
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Best tag name for Al-Amal (Hope) or Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)?
For the awkwardly titled question Did UAE's Al-Amal (Hope) Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) launch directly into an interplanetary trajectory or did it spend some time in LEO? I've just created the tag ...
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Tags on the Spacex fairing catchers
There is currently a mr-steven tag, for the Spacex vessel that catches fairings (Wikipedia).
This ship has since been renamed to Ms. Tree, and has a sister ship called Ms. Chief.
I believe it would be ...
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Best tagging for the newly named Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope?
Just a few days ago I created the tag for the upcoming WFIRST space telescope for Will WFIRST and JWST be able to resolve each other? and today I have read it was renamed. From Space News:
WASHINGTON ...
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"manufacturing" as a synonym for tag "manufacture"
Could we either rename or make a synonym manufacturing for the existing tag manufacture?
Apparently I haven't asked/answered enough questions specifically with that tag to even suggest a tag synonym.
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Reverse the [neo] and [near-earth-object] synonym
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Right now we have near-earth-asteroid and neo, which has [near-earth-object] as a synonym. This is potentially confusing to users, and if there's any other NEO acronyms out ...
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neo (near-earth-object) and near-earth-asteroid tags, do we need both?
The neo tag has 21 questions and its excerpt says:
Questions about Near-Earth Objects or NEO for short, a term describing meteoroids, asteroids, comets, man-made spacecraft, space observatories, ...
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"[shuttle]" tag appeared, seems redundant to "[space-shuttle]"
This month a couple of questions have used the shuttle tag. Both were clearly asking about STS which is covered by [space-shuttle]. I've edited both questions and replaced the tag; can [shuttle] be ...
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Should [dragon-v2] and [crew-dragon] be merged?
SpaceX really likes to rename things and the crewed Dragon capsule is no exception
The problem is we have dragon-v2
SpaceX's second version of the Dragon spacecraft, also called "Crew Dragon". It ...
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How did we end up with a hypothetical tag? Should we keep it, or not?
Lo and behold, we have a hypothetical tag! I spotted it on this hypothetical question but it's on three questions total.
Hypothetical questions can sometimes be asked here if the answer can be based ...
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What's up with the [tag:structure]?
Just saw [structure] was used the other day and had 5 entries, anyone have objections if I remove this tag and add more specific ones to the entries in question? Mainly:
Why aren't rockets built ...
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Can the tag [specfications] be spelt correctly
There are 7 questions in this tag, but it is not spelt correctly. It looks a bit illiterate at the moment. It should be spelt specifications, and probably does not need to be pluralised.
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Three-body versus CR3BP tags; combine them?
The three-body tag (5 questions) has the best name, but the tag info is written like a full tag Wiki rather than an excerpt. I think it can be shortened.
The cr3bp tag (7 questions) has an admittedly ...
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can we do away with the 'trajectories' tag and just keep 'trajectory'?
According to this answer there can be issues when there are two tags which are singular and plural form of the same term.
However it seems we have both trajectory and trajectories.
It looks like the ...
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Synonym [accident] to [failure]
I ran across accident today. It has 23 questions and no excerpt or wiki. But we already have failure (87 questions, 1 overlap), which is already the synonym for [launch-failure], [failed-mission] and [...
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Created "reduced-gravity-manufacturing" tag but then noticed "manufacture" tag exists, what to do?
I just created a reduced-gravity-manufacturing tag to go along with the reduced-gravity-sports and reduced-gravity-cooking tags and then enthusiastically added it to eight questions.
On the last one ...
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Can we merge [falcon9-r] into [falcon-9]?
There's currently both a falcon-9 and a falcon9-r tag. As far as I can see, falcon-9 is the generic tag for the Falcon 9 rocket, and falcon9-r is specifically for the reusable version (and was ...
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How to handle this potential question?
This is the start of a potential question:
Which Apollo-era contractors are still building aerospace components today?
This list of major Apollo manufacturers is from Chariots for Apollo. ...
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Is thre a difference between the tags [sun] and [the-sun]?
What is the difference (if any) between the tags sun and the-sun?
Should they be merged, or do they refer to different topics?
Note that there is currently zero overlap between the two tags; no ...
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Rename the [bfr] tag
We've have the enigmatic spacex project that was tentatively called the BFR, or Big F[alcon] Rocket. Elon Musk likes to shoot from the hip and the F means something else. Unsurprisingly, they didn't ...
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Would a "Speculation" tag be useful?
There are many questions on the site of the form of "could this work". These questions generally propose a solution to some real or imagined problem and ask if the solution would work. Would it be ...
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You say tomato, I say tomato, you say Ultima Thule, I say 2014-MU69. How to deal with dual names and tags?
I created 2014-mu69 a year and a half ago but they've since nick-named the asteroid Ultima Thule and people use that a lot.
It currently has 8 questions and no doubt in the next week it will get more,...
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Two SpaceX Dragon tags, is clarification needed?
In the question What is SpaceX's parachute problem that NASA is concerned about in the NASA ASAP report? I needed a Dragon capsule tag. There are two to choose from:
dragon and dragon-v2
Do we need ...
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Synonym [astronauts] and [astronaut]
astronauts is the more used of the two. astronaut has only 5 questions.
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Can we have a [pollution] tag?
I asked a question about jettisoned rocket parts residing in the ocean, and tagged it with waste, but this tag was removed in an edit, presumably because most other instances of this tag relate waste ...
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What is the [shuttle-shuttle] tag for?
Title pretty much says it all.
What is the [shuttle-shuttle] tag for? How is it different from space-shuttle?
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Ice, [ice], baby?
I submitted an excerpt for ice, but I realized that not all the existing questions were about extra-terrestrial ice (e.g. 1, 2). Trying to shove rocket ice into that mix introduces double meanings, ...
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Is it Starman or is it the Roadster?
After the test flight of the Falcon Heavy, we've gotten a flood of questions related to its wonderfully quirky payload. Before the launch, this payload was known as 'the Roadster', and we created a ...
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Merge supply-mission and resupply-mission
The tags supply-mission and resupply-missions are the same thing and they should be synonyms. I don't have the rep to suggest the synonym so hoping some can do it for me.
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Should we have separate tags for the Soyuz launcher and the Soyuz spacecraft?
Right now, the soyuz tag refers specifically to "questions regarding the Soyuz manned spacecraft"; it doesn't include questions about the Soyuz launcher. Should we create separate tags for the Soyuz ...
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Why have the XKCD cartoons in The Pod Bay stopped loading?
Monday's cartoon appeared only as a link, instead of loading as a graphic the way it usually does.
Today's cartoon link is broken, it loads a 404 message.
We need our XKCD. The cartoons are starred ...
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Does Space Exploration beta enforce a question ban?
I have been looking around the site for several days now, and no where I have I seen any mention of a question asking ban. By saying question asking ban, I mean the ban enforced when a user repeatedly ...
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I most strongly object!
I had a comment deleted and than had an answer converted to a comment on this question, Why does DSCOVR's camera EPIC see at least 13 sunrises and sunsets per day? NASA occasionally posts woo ...
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Comments cleanup please!
The following question had the OP pollute all the answers with irrelevant comments, which grew into quite a mess with replies:
What are the most serious injuries that astronauts have suffered while ...
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