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Most orbital launches in one day
There are currently 5 orbital launches scheduled for the 24 hour period starting at midnight UTC on 4th August 2022
There is also a New Shepard launch with human passengers scheduled for the same day.
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Longest duration of a Moon orbiter?
LRO (Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter) might be a good candidate from which we have data to know it's exact state.
But since you included "defunct spacecraft" as well there might be something in ...
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Longest duration of a Moon orbiter?
The comments are slightly out of date. The Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter, launched in 2009, is still going strong and is expected to last at least until 2026:
As of 2019, LRO has enough fuel to ...
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