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Can someone tell me why this article spends 90% of its wordcount talking about the rocket used to launch the spacecraft rather than the spacecraft itself?
by quanticle 13y ago
Can someone tell me why this article spends 90% of its wordcount talking about the rocket used to launch the spacecraft rather than the spacecraft itself?
- gojomo 13y agoYou should probably write a letter to the editor of Wikipedia with your question/complaint, and perhaps threaten to cancel your subscription if their writing doesn't improve to cover what you think it should cover.
- vilhelm_s 13y agoCurrently, "Ariane 5 Flight 501" redirects to this article. There is a category for launch failures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Satellite_launch_failures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Satellite_launch_failu...), and looking at that I guess the Wikipedia convention is to name launch failure articles after the satellite that would have been launched.
- maaku 13y agoThat's industry tradition. It's not common to number or name launches, but rather to refer to the primary payload, e.g. “The MSL launch”. EDIT: I'm sure that the launch provider has some naming scheme referencing the rocket itself, but usage of that is almost universally confined to internal communications. Human spaceflight is perhaps the exception (STS-125, not Hubble Servicing Mission #4).