Congratulations! At 19:30 UTC Sunday you are entering the biggest period without orbital launches since January 26, 1962, beating the 1993 record of 31.3306 days. Only at these moments in space history there has been a bigger "drought": Date TimeUTC DaysSinceLast LaunchNo LaunchesLast365days 19620126 2030 035.0542 0079 035 19590413 2118 041.6722 0015 009 19610131 2021 041.9924 0044 019 19580317 1215 044.3528 0004 003 19590217 1555 045.9681 0012 008 19580515 0700 049.5569 0006 005 19600810 2037 049.6132 0032 015 19610616 2302 050.3653 0057 026 19581206 0544 055.8764 0009 006 19580726 1500 072.3333 0007 006 19581011 0842 076.7375 0008 006 19580201 0347 090.0535 0003 002 19600311 1300 111.7326 0025 010 19590807 1423 115.7118 0016 008 19571004 1928 ---.---- 0001 000 If we count launch failures, we have to go back to Jan 1961. Other trivia: -We have the lowest number of launches for a year, just 50 in 2001 as of this writing. The latest record for a 50th launch was Sep 26, in 1995. -For the last 365 days there have been only 56 launches. That didn't happen since 19640129 1625 004.1014 0210 056 -The year 2001 will probably end with less that 60 launches, also a record since 1963 (55, not counting failures!). Even in 1962 there were 72 launches. Don't call this post off-topic because what we see up there has to come from somewhere after all... Thanks to Jonathan McDowell for the raw data (the launchlog file at his web site). -- Ruben Velasco <heston@arrakis.es> 37.3906N 6.0008W +39m PGP KeyID 37219E45 Fingerprint = 96575B8713370081 1BC5D43D324B3F4D ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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