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Interactive 3D models!

Wikimedia has recently allowed the upload of 3D models. The addition of 3D models will allow a much better understanding of the structure of spacecrafts and rockets than 2D diagrams. @Fac-tory-o already made several models of spacecrafts, including Juno and Voyager. It would be great to have more.

I think there are also some 3D models on the official NASA website that are open source. Converting them to .stl and uploading them to Commons should be fairly easy.

Article on the introduction of 3D models on Wikipedia. Note that only .stl files are supported right now.

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:3D_models_of_rockets
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:3D_models_of_spacecraft

XYZtSpace (talk) 23:39, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Did You Know section not cycling

Bug or feature? :)

--Neopeius (talk) 15:05, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: Do you know the answer to Neopeius' question? Kees08 (Talk) 18:03, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

If it was not reshuffling with a purge, then it was a bug, maybe. The DYK entries were organized in groups, and the group selected at random. It is possible a group could be displayed twice or even three times in a row even though randomly chosen. You might be wondering why I wrote "was a bug"...

I've taken the liberty to restart the portal, upgrading it to a single-page, more automated, design. The excerpts are now all transcluded, meaning they will always match the source rather than be a static copy-and-paste copy of it; that is, now they won't go stale over time. I've replaced the single-entry "Selected" sections with excerpt slideshows, that let the user browse through a selection of up to 50 entries at a time (randomized with each purge). I've expanded the entries in the overall selections being drawn from as well, which now include many more topics and more images, and hundreds of biographies. The selections are dynamic, and will change over time along with the source destinations -- as entries are added to those, they will in turn be available in the portal. The "Did you know" and "In the news" sections are search-parameter driven, showing entries from the past 36 months and 45 days respectively, thus, showing new entries over time. I hope you like it.    — The Transhumanist   06:48, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

P.S.: @Neopeius and Kees08: (ping)

Wow! Thanks so much for the quick response. :) --Neopeius (talk) 15:30, 10 February 2019 (UTC

How does one update the DYK section? One of them referred to the "upcoming" film, Hidden Figures, for instance. --Neopeius (talk) 15:33, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Amur rocket?

TASS gives some cost estimates for a planned Russian "Amur" rocket. I don't find it on Wikipedia and I would be surprised if we missed that completely - did it have a different name before? This website links it to Angara-5, but that is flying and not reusable. --mfb (talk) 21:55, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

spacefacts.de reliable source?

We have an IP that repeatedly adds a list of people for Crew-3 to SpaceX Dragon 2. We also have that list in SpaceX Crew-3 and Commercial Crew Program. I don't find any announcement by NASA, SpaceX, or anyone else. The only reference I find is the one in the article, going to spacefacts.de. Is that reliable, and where did they get that information from? Because I fear they copied the Wikipedia table (which is older than spacefacts.de's page, creating "facts" via circular referencing. --mfb (talk) 20:56, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Someone removed it again from the Crew-3 page, I removed it from three other articles. --mfb (talk) 12:34, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Probably not. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 08:58, 21 December 2021 (UTC)