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Fantastic launch rates!
31 october 2009

Fourteen launches in 11.5 months: Flight 71 (Ariane 4) on 28 March 1995, to Flight 84 (Ariane 4) on 14 March 1996. A first record!

Three launches in the same month, on 5, 21 and 28 October 1998, with two Ariane 4s (flights 111 and 113) and one Ariane 5 (Flight 112/L503).

Three launches in 19.3 days in December 1999: Flight 124 (Ariane 4) on 3 December at 4.22 p.m., Flight 119 (Ariane 5) on 10 December and Flight 125 (Ariane 4) on 23 December at 12.50 a.m. These three launches completed a series of eight launches in 4.3 months!

The interval between Flight 135 (Ariane 5) and Flight 136 (Ariane 4) in November 2000 was only five days 22 hours and 49 minutes. Here again, the two launches completed an exceptional run of seven in three months, with a peak of four launch campaigns running in parallel!

The current record is five days 18 hours 8 minutes and 59 seconds, between Flight 148 (Ariane 4) on 23 February 2002 and Flight 145 (Ariane 5) on 1 March 2002.

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