Questions tagged [tagging]
The tagging tag has no usage guidance.
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What's the difference between the [astrodynamics] and [orbital-mechanics] tags? Do we need both? Will question authors always know which to use?
astrodynamics 82 questions:
The study of satellite orbits and space flight dynamics.
orbital-mechanics 1,527 questions:
Orbital mechanics or astrodynamics is the application of ballistics and ...
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"Can I offer you a hydrolysis tag?" It's delicious and essential to future spaceflight, but can we maintain such a tag?
The recent question has added a hydrolysis tag.
Below it I added the comment:
I first removed the hydrolysis tag then after thinking further I rolled back my edit ...
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Should we revive the developing-space-programs tag by adding it to all applicable questions, or just delete or combine with space-program?
developing-space-programs 7 questions:
The developing-space-programs tag has no usage guidance, can you help us create it?
seems to be an experiment that's run its course. While I think we've had ...
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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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What is the prediction tag for? Do we need it?
I found the prediction tag (11 questions currently) on Terraforming — when and where — current estimates? where it was added by a new user assuming it belongs on questions about predicting ...
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Hot topics? Cool questions? thermal, thermal-control, heat, heat-flow, cooling, sub-cooled, liquid-cooled tags; is there room for some consolidation?
thermal: 96 questions
How heat affects spacecraft and space missions, or materials and methods to deal with heat.
thermal-control: 67 questions
Questions about heat management in spacecraft
heat: ...
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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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Difference between [law], [regulatory] and [international-politics] tags? The last two have no use guidance, what might that be?
law 117 questions:
Relating to treaties, laws, ownership and disputes during the exploration of space. For non-space exploration related law questions, see our sister site Law Stack Exchange.
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We have the "record" tag, would a tag for "firsts" or "how many" question be helpful to make these answers grouped and easy to find?
The record tag currently has 127 questions, and this makes all the valuable answers about space records (most, smallest, etc.) easily accessible to future readers.
We also have classes of questions &...
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Is CSS a better tag for the Chinese Space Station Tiangong ("Heavenly Palace")?
Background
Because Stack Exchange sites are requited to stick to English (except for those specifically in other languages) we sometimes make certain choices. For example it's been previously ...
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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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Should we clean up and separate 'attitude' and 'attitude-determination-and-control' questions, or just further merge these last two tags?
Thanks to the retiring of the adcs tag we now have:
attitude 211 questions:
Questions on ascertaining, predicting, and controlling spatial orientation and rotation of spacecraft, and on forces that ...
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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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We have both electric-propulsion and ion-thruster tags, are they distinct? What would be good usage guidance for electric-propulsion?
The ion-thruster tag is used on 125 questions and it's usage guidance is:
Questions about engines used in space that accelerate ions to create thrust.
and it has been synonymized with ion-drive, ion-...
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Please help me to understand how tags end up visible when you start typing a different but related term in the tagging window of a question post
I've been active in Stack Exchange for several years and posted many questions, and while I'm not stupid per se I have never figured out how the site's tagging system works. It's a black box to me.
I ...
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What does the "status-completed" tag mean on "discussion" questions? How does it compare to/contrast with an answer being accepted?
It seems I'd left this tab open on my phone a week ago because it intrigued/confused me.
What does the status-completed tag denote in the context of questions tagged discussion?
I'm thinking that it ...
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Do we need a smallsat tag, or might we just include small satellites within the cubesat tag's usage guidance?
To What was the first satellite with COTS electronics? I've added the cubesat tag though I really just want to specify any small satellites (as opposed to space stations and big communications ...
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Should there be an "Explorer Program" tag or just add separate tags for each one as it becomes necessary? (they each seem so different!)
Was the nature of Explorer 3's orbit intentional? mentions Explorer 1 and Explorer 3 and since only the explorer-1 tag was added because it was the only one available, I created/added an explorer-...
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ECEF and ECI tags, do we need them? Frames seems to be the standard
I was adding tags to Satellite tracking telescope integrated program in Matlab and included the frames tag with 24 questions.
Then I noticed there also existed eci with 5 questions, and ecef with 2 ...
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How is our tagging situation? What can we do to improve it?
Should I create a new tag? is certainly required reading for everyone. That being said:
What else can we do to improve our "tag hygiene"?
What are good strategies to check the tagging of ...
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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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Should I create a new tag?
There's a bunch of words in my question that don't have tags yet. Can I just add them all?
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Tags [expandable] and [expendable]
I noticed that someone had confused the words EXPANDABLE and EXPENDABLE and used the wrong tag.
To avoid confusion I added a description for the expandable tag.
However, I'm not sure if the best ...
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Merge [dust] and [regolith]
It seems to me that dust and regolith are p̶e̶r̶f̶e̶c̶t̶
̶ more or less synonyms (for the purpose of this site). I suggest we merge and synonymize. What do you think? ("Yes" answers should specify ...
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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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Should [space-law] be just [law]?
I was thinking of going through and retagging all the space-law questions to just law. Before doing so, however, I decided to ask the community - It seems like there is something I am missing.
Should ...
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