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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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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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.
Most people ...
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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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Contingency as a synonym to Emergency?
I was thinking of adding 'Contingency' as a synonym of the 'Emergency' tag since there are quite a few questions that relate to contingency, and it could be included in Emergency.
Emergency and ...
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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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Tags for pre-Sputnik topics
A small but significant number of past and future questions involve space technology prior to the October 1957 launch of Sputnik 1. There does not seem to be any dedicated tag for such topics. What ...
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Do we count monkeys as crew?
We use the tag crewed-spaceflight instead of manned because the latter might be interpreted as gender-specific. Do we also include the pre-Mercury flights that included monkeys and other primates as "...
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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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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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What's the best tag for the gas mixture that humans and animals breathe inside spacecraft, or one that they don't?
What's the best tag for the gas mixture that humans and animals breathe inside spacecraft, or one that they don't?
atmosphere's definition says it's the stuff around planets.
Questions regarding an ...
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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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Tag moxie? I mean MOXIE tag?
I've recently asked three questions related to MOXIE and created a moxie-oxygen-generator tag. I'm not sure
that that is the best name for the tag
that a tag is even needed; we already have oxygen
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Appropriate definitions for stage-separation and separation tags?
I've adjusted tagging on a few questions so that stage-separation appears on questions about separation events involving
stages
capsules
"pseudo-stages" like Apollo command and service modules
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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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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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Do we need the ORBITAL tag?
I think almost all (if not all) of the 18 instances of the orbital tag could be replaced with orbital-mechanics or just be removed. There's only one question where it is the only tag currently present....
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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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Best use of the 'separation' and 'stage-separation' tags
separation 11 questions
stage-separation 14 questions
both tags: no questions at the moment
The meaning of stage-separation is probably straightforward, but what ...
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Identify-this-object tag potentially misapplied? Should it be slightly broadened in scope?
It was called to my attention in since-deleted comments below this answer that I might have mis-applied the identify-this-object tag a few times.
Current definition:
Questions which ask for an ...
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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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Rename [lunar-module] to [apollo-lunar-module]
While a viable lunar mission might be some years off still, I've noted that the existing lunar-module tag is geared towards Apollo exclusively.
The Lunar Module was part of the Apollo program ...
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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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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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Rosalind Franklin is no longer called “ExoMars rover”, how to manage tags and titles of older questions?
Just like the "Solar Probe Plus" working title was changed to Parker Solar Probe, the "ESA Roscosmos ExoMars Rover" has now been officially named Rosalind Franklin.
We have over 60 ...
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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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Defining requirements for hypothetical-invention questions
The idea of a hypothetical-invention tag seems to be gaining mild acceptance:
https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1167/58
If we're going to have this tag, we should probably first establish what ...
