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I should be able to find the exhaustive list of Ariane 1~5 launches which were followed by Super Arcas / Loki. But I'm quite sure we didn't log the exact launch times.

Merci Thierry, anything helps, my assumption was that the Super Arcas/Loki were launched on the same day as the Ariane launch, correct ? and was it linked to the authorization to fuel ?

They were all launched the same day Ariane were launched but after the H0 (roughly 15~30 minutes after) in order to help in characterizing precisely the atmosphere profile (winds) to correlate with the actual piloting of the launcher.

Interesting, I had assumed before launch, indeed for wind, do you know the reason why it was stopped after 1998 ?

A well knowledge of Ariane 5 system and a good confidence in its GNC after the first 3 launches.

Understood, for V101 there were 2 launched it seems, one failed maybe ?

And also do you know if they were set to go at a certain altitude ? or did this vary ?

Well I didn't remember Imagine the Super Loki for L501 was one of my first job at CSG's ops department in 1996. But I forgot those details.