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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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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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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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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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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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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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?
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Space.SE resolution: 1000+ questions by year end
I would like all of us to make one rather reasonable resolution, to ask at least 1000 questions by New Year's Day 2014. This is a perfectly reasonable number to target, and should be close to our ...
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Adding a hyphen to [tag:remotesensing]
It seems that "remote sensing" is two separate words, so the remotesensing tag should have a hyphen (i.e., be remote-sensing). (I do not think this justifies having a synonym.)
I am tagging this ...
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Do we need the tag [ noaa-prime]?
Do we need the tag noaa-prime ( it has only one question ) ?
but we still have some related tags artificial-satellite .
I think noaa-prime can be deleted and the question must be retagged or can ...
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Can we make orbit abbreviations synonyms for the orbits?
https://space.stackexchange.com/tags/geosynchronous/synonyms does not have any synonyms. If we look at What is the maximum mass of a satellite that can be placed in GEO? we see a question riddled ...
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Should [probe] be made a synonym with [space-probes]?
I noticed when asking a question involving space probes that two tags came up in the autocomplete thingy: probe and space-probes. Is there any reason that space-probes shouldn't be a synonym of probe? ...
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Live chat room event: Minotaur V to launch the LADEE (Sep. 7, 2013 at 1:30 a.m. UTC/GMT)
This is an invitation to attend our chat room event, where we will be covering the launch of the U.S. Air Force-provided Minotaur V rocket launching the NASA's LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust ...
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Why is this not an obsolete comment?
I recently flagged Pearson's comment on this post as obsolete in response to Tildal's call for obsolete comment flags:
Edit your question and put it in. It's pretty common to edit questions after ...
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Is the [dust] tag really necessary?
It seems to me that all the possible posts that might use the [dust] tag will not necessarily be related to each other. Some will be FOD issues (a much more interesting tag, imo), some will be space ...
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Live chat room event: Ariane 5 ECA rocket (VA215) to launch the Eutelsat 25B and GSAT 7 satellites (Aug. 29, 2013 at 8:10 p.m. UTC/GMT)
This is an invitation to attend our chat room event, where we will be covering the launch of the Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA215, to launch the Eutelsat 25B and GSAT 7 satellites.
&...
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Live chat room event: Delta IV Heavy to Launch NROL-65 (August 28, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. UTC/GMT)
This is an invitation to attend our chat room event, where we will be covering the launch of the ULA (United Launch Alliance) Delta IV-Heavy configuration delivering the classified NROL-65 payload to ...
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Live chat room event: Launch of JAXA Epsilon-1 with SPRINT-A on board (August 27, 2013 at 4:25 a.m. UTC/GMT)
Update: Today's launch was cancelled. More details will be reported as further information becomes available.
This is an invitation to attend our chat room event, where we will be covering the launch ...
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Should we use [eva] or [extra-vehicular-activity]?
I just noticed we currently have an eva tag and an extra-vehicular-activity tag.
The eva tag has the advantage of being nice and short, while the extra-vehicular-activity tag has the advantage of ...
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Can we lose the [satellites] tag in favour of [artificial-satellites] and [natural-satellites]?
The satellites tag seems to be both ambiguous and pointless in light of the existence of its two sub-tags in artificial-satellites and natural-satellites. Therefore, it might be a good idea to make ...
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Is [failed-missions] an interesting tag?
I just asked this question and I took the liberty of adding two tags. One is failed-missions. Can this be interesting for filtering and for discussing causes and details about failed missions? With ...
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Can we make the [space-sickness] and [motion-sickness] tags synonyms?
We have two tags, space-sickness and motion-sickness on the main site, in the context of Space Exploration both describing same range of symptoms known as space adaptation syndrome a.k.a. space motion ...
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Please revise reason for closure or delete question. This downvoted, many times edited and misclosed question is not a duplicate.
Please, if the question needs to be (down voted and) closed, can you find a valid reason for closure as this is not a duplicate question? One asks for the mass launched into Space. My question asks ...
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What should we do about [zero-gravity]?
I'm wondering what we should do with zero-gravity - as we all know, zero gravity does not exist - the correct term is microgravity, which we already have a tag for. Furthermore, all the zero-gravity ...
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Writing equations (Mathjax and alternatives)
How important does everyone feel that equations are here? Other communities like physics and math uses MathJax, which will render equations typed in LaTeX. That has to be added to the site code, and ...
