Beacon (satellite)

Beacon - NASA balloon satellite program. Article “Beacon (satellite)” in French Wikipedia has 33 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Beacon (satellite)”, its content was written by 5 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 38 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in French Wikipedia and cited 77 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #53034 in February 2019
• Global: #110234 in February 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #612618 in February 2025
• Global: #1952748 in November 2009

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Project Beacon		44.0465
2	French (fr) Beacon (satellite)		33.0228
3	Galician (gl) Beacon (satélites)		25.6039
4	Portuguese (pt) Projeto Beacon		13.1462
5	Polish (pl) Beacon (satelita)		7.3215
6	Spanish (es) Beacon (satélites)		3.8071

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Beacon (satellite)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Project Beacon		18 606
2	Polish (pl) Beacon (satelita)		12 472
3	Spanish (es) Beacon (satélites)		9 123
4	French (fr) Beacon (satellite)		2 051
5	Portuguese (pt) Projeto Beacon		502
6	Galician (gl) Beacon (satélites)		399

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Beacon (satellite)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Project Beacon		261
2	French (fr) Beacon (satellite)		28
3	Polish (pl) Beacon (satelita)		27
4	Spanish (es) Beacon (satélites)		11
5	Galician (gl) Beacon (satélites)		11
6	Portuguese (pt) Projeto Beacon		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Beacon (satellite)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Project Beacon		12
2	Polish (pl) Beacon (satelita)		9
3	Spanish (es) Beacon (satélites)		7
4	French (fr) Beacon (satellite)		5
5	Portuguese (pt) Projeto Beacon		3
6	Galician (gl) Beacon (satélites)		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Beacon (satellite)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Project Beacon		0
2	Spanish (es) Beacon (satélites)		0
3	French (fr) Beacon (satellite)		0
4	Galician (gl) Beacon (satélites)		0
5	Polish (pl) Beacon (satelita)		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Projeto Beacon		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Beacon (satellite)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Project Beacon		55
2	Polish (pl) Beacon (satelita)		8
3	French (fr) Beacon (satellite)		5
4	Spanish (es) Beacon (satélites)		4
5	Galician (gl) Beacon (satélites)		4
6	Portuguese (pt) Projeto Beacon		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Project Beacon
es	Spanish Beacon (satélites)
fr	French Beacon (satellite)
gl	Galician Beacon (satélites)
pl	Polish Beacon (satelita)
pt	Portuguese Projeto Beacon

Best Rank

French: #612618 02.2025

Global: #1952748 11.2009

Best Rank

French: #53034 02.2019

Global: #110234 02.2019

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