Template talk:Infobox spaceflight/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Edit request (capitalization)

The label "Space Station" should be changed to "Space station" because it is itself not a proper name. Ponydepression (talk) 23:20, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

 Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:55, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

links

this template should have entries for direct links to streamed launches or other relevant livestreams for the entries. 2A02:2F0B:B500:5A00:CCF7:1410:791:32C0 (talk) 20:15, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

"instruments_list" reads weird

As can be seen here when an instrument_list is used it's basically duplicative and not terribly helpful.

I propose either making a header and then the left column defines the category of sensor (e.g. "electro-optical", "radio", "thermal", etc). Or more simply, add this to another category and just have "Instruments" on the left and then a bulleted list. JackW2 (talk) 07:02, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Missing template info

I noticed that there is not a "orbit_latitude" section in the infobox even though there is an "orbit_longitude" section. Darthbots (talk) 17:51, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Add launch time

Because some infobox users are specifying launch dates with times down to the second, and in multiple timezones, the resulting lines can break in unfortunate places. The result is that long infoboxes become even longer. Please add a separate infobox parameter for 'launch time' to isolate that on a separate (hopefuly single) line in these infoboxes. (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 23:53, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

 Not done for now: You have not linked to any affected articles or proposed new code, so there is not an obvious edit to make here. The documentation says

| launch_date           = <!--{{start-date|DATE, TIME}}&nbsp;[[UTC]]-->

which seems pretty clear to me. If people are using a different format, you could fix it per the template's documentation – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:47, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

A sample article suffering from this is IM-1.

The code involved is:

|data7      = {{#if:{{{entered_service|}}}{{{launch_date|{{{launch_rocket|{{{launch_site|{{{launch_contractor|}}}}}}}}}}}}|{{infobox|child=yes
|header1=Start of mission
 |label2    = Launch date
 |data2     = {{{launch_date|}}}
 |label3    = Rocket
 |data3     = {{{launch_rocket|}}}
 |label4    = Launch site
 |data4     = {{{launch_site|}}}
 |label5    = Contractor
 |data5     = {{{launch_contractor|}}}
 |label6    = Deployed from
 |data6     = {{{deployment_from|}}}
 |label7    = Deployment date
 |data7     = {{{deployment_date|}}}
 |label8    = Entered service
 |data8     = {{{entered_service|}}}

The change would be to insert:

 |label3    = Launch time
 |data3     = {{{launch_time|}}}

and increment the label# and data# for each field that follows. (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 01:06, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

I have fixed that article per this template's documentation. I think you would need to get consensus to change this template rather than going with the consistent format recommended by the documentation, as most articles appear to do. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:46, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Ah thanks! With strict adherence to the documentation, including use of &nbsp; this works fine. (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 11:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

programme2 not displaying properly

In Crew Dragon Demo-1, The program successions for the two programs are messed up. the "next_mission" of the first mission is displaying on the same line as the name of the program name of the second program. Arch dude (talk) 16:50, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

I modified Crew Dragon Demo-1 to use abbreviation to shorten the names as a horrible kludge workaround. To see an example, you will need to use longer names. -Arch dude (talk) 22:19, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Here is the bad display (long names)

Crew Dragon Demo-1

Names	Crew Demo-1 SpaceX Demo-1 Demonstration Mission-1
Mission type	Test flight
Operator	SpaceX
Mission duration	6 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes
Orbits completed	62
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Crew Dragon C204
Spacecraft type	Crew Dragon
Manufacturer	SpaceX
Launch mass	12,055 kg (26,577 lb)
Dry mass	6,350 kg (14,000 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date	2 March 2019, 07:49:03 UTC
Rocket	Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1051.1)
Launch site	Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A
Contractor	SpaceX
End of mission
Recovered by	MV GO Searcher
Landing date	8 March 2019, 13:45:08 UTC
Landing site	Atlantic Ocean
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Harmony forward
Docking date	3 March 2019, 10:51 UTC
Undocking date	8 March 2019, 07:32 UTC
Time docked	4 days, 20 hours, 41 minutes
Commercial Crew Development Crew Dragon flights

and the properly-displayed kludge:

Crew Dragon Demo-1

Names	Crew Demo-1 SpaceX Demo-1 Demonstration Mission-1
Mission type	Test flight
Operator	SpaceX
Mission duration	6 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes
Orbits completed	62
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Crew Dragon C204
Spacecraft type	Crew Dragon
Manufacturer	SpaceX
Launch mass	12,055 kg (26,577 lb)
Dry mass	6,350 kg (14,000 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date	2 March 2019, 07:49:03 UTC
Rocket	Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1051.1)
Launch site	Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A
Contractor	SpaceX
End of mission
Recovered by	MV GO Searcher
Landing date	8 March 2019, 13:45:08 UTC
Landing site	Atlantic Ocean
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Harmony forward
Docking date	3 March 2019, 10:51 UTC
Undocking date	8 March 2019, 07:32 UTC
Time docked	4 days, 20 hours, 41 minutes
Commercial Crew Development Crew Dragon flights

Fixed, I think. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:24, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! As you can see, the "bad" example above is no longer bad. Overly-long names are not pretty and the template cannot fix that, but now the are at least in the correct place. -Arch dude (talk) 04:09, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

add "planned mission duration" parameter

Such parameter still seems to be missing D4n2016 (talk) 01:29, 24 October 2024 (UTC)