Questions tagged [tags]
Questions regarding the tags used on Space.SE, and what kind of questions they should be used on.
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Should the 3 tags exist
I recently noticed a tag called 3. I am pretty sure that is too broad and not useful. Can it be deleted?
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Written for kids
We have had younger users ask questions in the past. It's great to see children show enthusiasm for space exploration. There has been at least one meta discussion in the past about creating a tag ...
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Should the `artemis` tag be renamed to or a synonym of `artemis-1`?
We have artemis, artemis-program and artemis-mission tags. The latter two are synonyms and ...
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"upgrade" the new [rad750] tag to something like [radiation-hardening] or "downgrade" it to the cornfield, or combine with [shielding], or...?
The new question Are there already spacecraft equipped with RAD5500 processors? has a rad750 tag
this is currently the only question where this tag can be found
this question isn't even about the ...
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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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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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Where does the low-earth-orbit tag end and the very-low-earth-orbit tag begin? How should they be defined?
low-earth-orbit 347 questions
Questions regarding Low Earth Orbit or LEO, which refers to orbits at an altitude between approximately 160 kilometers / 100 miles and 2,000 kilometers / 1,200 miles.
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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")?
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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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Would a “space-governance” new tag be of interest?
With the growing number of private space activities, both for commercial and for non-profit (educational/scientific/hobbies/...), it is legitimate to ask questions on whether a regulatory framework ...
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Tag name for MMU, SAFER, and similar?
What would be a good tag name for devices that help propel a spacewalking astronaut? Such devices include the MMU, SAFER, and the canned gas that Ed White used during his spacewalk. I have a pending ...
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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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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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What do you think about a weekly new tag report bot?
I moderate other communities outside of Stack Exchange, and in most other cases I have put on my app developer hat to make some helpful bots. I haven't done that yet for Space Exploration, but I'm ...
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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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Are questions about the U.S. Space Force on topic? Tag needed?
There have been questions and answers which have mentioned the U.S. Space Force.
Do we want questions specifically about it on-topic?
If so, should there be a tag?
How should such a tag be spelled ...
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Would a "pyrotechnics" tag be useful?
We currently have an explosives tag. It has 13 questions, ranging in topic from explosive decompression, explosives as a propellant, the ALSEP grenades, and pyrotechnics.
I have some interest in ...
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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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Synonym [eva] and [spacewalk]
[space-walk] is already a synonym but spacewalk has 32 questions
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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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Is there any point to the "travel" tag?
It seems overly broad to be useful.
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/travel
Wiki excerpt for travel:
Questions related to any kinds of travel where entering space is involved.
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Is the mission-design tag description wrong? Should the trajectory-design tag be somehow nixed?
My understanding of the term "mission design" is that it includes a variety of aspects of a mission, including features of a spacecraft and aspects of its trajectory; where it passes ...
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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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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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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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Why are there so few badge tagged tag-badge questions on meta?
Only on one occasion, it seems, someone has had any confusion about how tag badges work.
Does that mean this feature is strikingly crystal clear compared to other aspects of the site, which generates ...
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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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Tagging questions about flight footage or video documentation
Are there specific tags that can / should be used with questions about footage (for example of a rocket in mid air)?
When I searched the keyword footage (https://space.stackexchange.com/search?q=...
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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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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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Should Contingency have its own tag?
I am opening this question on suggestion by called2voyage here.
There currently exists an emergency tag, but no contingency tag. Emergencies and Contingencies are quite different.
From what I ...
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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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