Space Shuttle Challenger

Quality:

Challenger - American Space Shuttle orbiter. Article “Space Shuttle Challenger” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Space Shuttle Challenger”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7113^th place) and edited by 2071 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5442 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #315 in December 2009
• Global: #59 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4723 in November 2014
• Global: #2403 in April 2026

There are 48 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, 2026 (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) Space Shuttle Challenger		55.022
2	Estonian (et) Challenger		53.6009
3	Portuguese (pt) Challenger (ônibus espacial)		47.3294
4	Greek (el) Διαστημικό Λεωφορείο Τσάλεντζερ		42.4498
5	Chinese (zh) 挑戰者號太空梭		41.4802
6	Malay (ms) Bolak-balik angkasa lepas Challenger		40.1761
7	Spanish (es) Transbordador espacial Challenger		38.0238
8	Slovak (sk) Challenger (raketoplán)		33.1677
9	Norwegian (no) Challenger (romferge)		32.5339
10	Swedish (sv) Challenger (rymdfärja)		32.354

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Challenger		9 112 216
2	German (de) Challenger (Raumfähre)		1 761 494
3	Spanish (es) Transbordador espacial Challenger		1 583 410
4	Russian (ru) Челленджер (шаттл)		1 004 247
5	French (fr) Challenger (navette spatiale)		914 152
6	Japanese (ja) スペースシャトル・チャレンジャー		698 728
7	Portuguese (pt) Challenger (ônibus espacial)		635 708
8	Polish (pl) Challenger (wahadłowiec)		475 358
9	Dutch (nl) Challenger (ruimteveer)		463 358
10	Italian (it) Space Shuttle Challenger		410 374

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Challenger		17 262
2	German (de) Challenger (Raumfähre)		5 858
3	Russian (ru) Челленджер (шаттл)		1 964
4	French (fr) Challenger (navette spatiale)		1 524
5	Polish (pl) Challenger (wahadłowiec)		1 137
6	Japanese (ja) スペースシャトル・チャレンジャー		1 093
7	Spanish (es) Transbordador espacial Challenger		1 085
8	Italian (it) Space Shuttle Challenger		799
9	Chinese (zh) 挑戰者號太空梭		730
10	Persian (fa) شاتل فضایی چلنجر		717

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Challenger		567
2	French (fr) Challenger (navette spatiale)		147
3	German (de) Challenger (Raumfähre)		145
4	Dutch (nl) Challenger (ruimteveer)		111
5	Spanish (es) Transbordador espacial Challenger		96
6	Russian (ru) Челленджер (шаттл)		85
7	Polish (pl) Challenger (wahadłowiec)		76
8	Italian (it) Space Shuttle Challenger		60
9	Chinese (zh) 挑戰者號太空梭		55
10	Danish (da) Challenger (rumfærge)		54

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Challenger		3
2	Polish (pl) Challenger (wahadłowiec)		2
3	Arabic (ar) تشالنجر (مكوك فضاء)		1
4	Indonesian (id) Pesawat Ulang Alik Challenger		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Челленджер (шатл)		1
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tàu con thoi Challenger		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Çellencer (şattl)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Чалънджър		0
9	Catalan (ca) Transbordador espacial Challenger		0
10	Czech (cs) Challenger (raketoplán)		0

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

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