Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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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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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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“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
Related to this question
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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What is the difference between [crewed-spaceflight] and [crewed-missions]?
I noticed that we have two tags that appear to be very closely related: crewed-spaceflight (171 questions) and crewed-missions (23 questions). The question overlap between them is minimal; only four ...
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Should we have a composite materials tag?
There are a number of questions related to composite materials:
https://space.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22composite+materials%22+is%3Aquestion
https://space.stackexchange.com/search?q=composites+-%...
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Can we get a tag for the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation?
I just edited the tags of this question. I'm surprised we don't have a tag for the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation. Shouldn't we have one?
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Should we merge launch-site and launchpad tags?
launch-site tag's description:
Questions on launch complexes, spaceports or other locales for the
launch of spacecraft.
launchpad tag's description:
Questions regarding structures used to aid ...
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Am I alone in not seeing featured meta posts?
All I see is "Upcoming events" (am a Firefox user). I haven't looked closely at the CSS but have a nagging feeling that Upcoming events and Featured meta-posts somehow preempt each other, and compete ...
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Should Fuel and Propellant be merged?
I'm trying to decide if there is any meaningful difference between fuel and propellants. They both seem to cover the same thing, namely the fuel of a spacecraft. I suppose fuel is slightly more ...
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Redirect [dragonrider] to [dragon-v2]
The official name of SpaceX's first manned capsule is dragon-v2 so why not unify that on tag instead of double-tagging with dragonrider?
I agree that the code name is comparatively nice — especially ...
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Clarify celestial-mechanics tag
The celestial-mechanics tag implies that planetary orbital mechanics are on-topic for space.SE. I would like to edit the description of the tag to clarify that it is intended for spacecraft only. ...
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Please burninate (and blacklist) the “rocket-science” tag
For a site supposedly wholly and unabashedly devoted to rocket science, this tag is kinda superfluous.
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Would it be useful to be able to put videos in questions and answers?
I was going to do this the other day with two videos of the Antares explosion this week. The question regarded analysis of the video so it would have been relevant.
It occurs to me that animations ...
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Can 'crewed mission' be suggested as the usual tag instead of 'manned mission'?
We all know why...
Three cheers for female astronauts! Or cosmonauts! Or taikonauts, or whatever.
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We have two tags for the Quest Joint Airlock
quest and quest-joint-airlock both refer to the Quest Joint Airlock. How should we handle these synonyms?
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Some minor improvements to the Help Center
Poking around the site, I noticed this is our current help center text:
Space Exploration is primarily about spacecraft, how to get them to space, and what they do when they get there. Specifically, ...
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaats!
Stack Exchange last year did an end of the year party featuring special hats. They want to know if we want to do the same thing this year to our site. So, do we want hats?
