Air-launch-to-orbit

Air launch to orbit - method of launching rockets at altitude from a conventional horizontal-takeoff aircraft. Article “Air-launch-to-orbit” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Air-launch-to-orbit”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 146 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 289 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #5308 in January 2021
• Global: #48599 in January 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #51678 in June 2022
• Global: #168390 in January 2021

There are 8 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, 2025 (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) Air-launch-to-orbit		25.4529
2	Japanese (ja) 空中発射ロケット		22.0252
3	Portuguese (pt) Lançamento do ar para a órbita		19.0992
4	Indonesian (id) Peluncuran udara ke orbit		18.1284
5	French (fr) Lanceur aéroporté		17.0903
6	Simple English (simple) Air-launch-to-orbit		14.6076
7	Chinese (zh) 機載太空火箭發射		10.2076
8	Arabic (ar) الإطلاق الجوي إلى المدار		8.1535

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Air-launch-to-orbit" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Air-launch-to-orbit		427 024
2	Japanese (ja) 空中発射ロケット		57 273
3	French (fr) Lanceur aéroporté		12 992
4	Portuguese (pt) Lançamento do ar para a órbita		2 110
5	Chinese (zh) 機載太空火箭發射		1 846
6	Arabic (ar) الإطلاق الجوي إلى المدار		1 133
7	Simple English (simple) Air-launch-to-orbit		762
8	Indonesian (id) Peluncuran udara ke orbit		748

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Air-launch-to-orbit" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Air-launch-to-orbit		2 051
2	Japanese (ja) 空中発射ロケット		202
3	French (fr) Lanceur aéroporté		73
4	Chinese (zh) 機載太空火箭發射		37
5	Indonesian (id) Peluncuran udara ke orbit		27
6	Arabic (ar) الإطلاق الجوي إلى المدار		19
7	Simple English (simple) Air-launch-to-orbit		15
8	Portuguese (pt) Lançamento do ar para a órbita		10

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

Language versions of the article "Air-launch-to-orbit" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Air-launch-to-orbit		89
2	Japanese (ja) 空中発射ロケット		25
3	French (fr) Lanceur aéroporté		17
4	Portuguese (pt) Lançamento do ar para a órbita		6
5	Simple English (simple) Air-launch-to-orbit		3
6	Chinese (zh) 機載太空火箭發射		3
7	Arabic (ar) الإطلاق الجوي إلى المدار		2
8	Indonesian (id) Peluncuran udara ke orbit		1

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

Language versions of the article "Air-launch-to-orbit" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الإطلاق الجوي إلى المدار		0
2	English (en) Air-launch-to-orbit		0
3	French (fr) Lanceur aéroporté		0
4	Indonesian (id) Peluncuran udara ke orbit		0
5	Japanese (ja) 空中発射ロケット		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Lançamento do ar para a órbita		0
7	Simple English (simple) Air-launch-to-orbit		0
8	Chinese (zh) 機載太空火箭發射		0

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

Language versions of the article "Air-launch-to-orbit" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 空中発射ロケット		136
2	English (en) Air-launch-to-orbit		96
3	French (fr) Lanceur aéroporté		33
4	Chinese (zh) 機載太空火箭發射		11
5	Simple English (simple) Air-launch-to-orbit		7
6	Indonesian (id) Peluncuran udara ke orbit		4
7	Arabic (ar) الإطلاق الجوي إلى المدار		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Lançamento do ar para a órbita		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الإطلاق الجوي إلى المدار
en	English Air-launch-to-orbit
fr	French Lanceur aéroporté
id	Indonesian Peluncuran udara ke orbit
ja	Japanese 空中発射ロケット
pt	Portuguese Lançamento do ar para a órbita
simple	Simple English Air-launch-to-orbit
zh	Chinese 機載太空火箭發射

Best Rank

Simple English: #51678 06.2022

Global: #168390 01.2021

Best Rank

Simple English: #5308 01.2021

Global: #48599 01.2021

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