"World's Best Launcher"?

>>From the V169 post launch press conference:

"This performance clearly demonstrates that Ariane 5 is the world's
best launcher, and Arianespace - with its family of vehicles - is
clearly the no. 1 launch services company," explained Arianespace CEO
Jean-Yves Le Gall. "For 2005, we have launched more spacecraft than all
of our competitors combined, and there still is one final Starsem
mission to perform next week with yet another Soyuz."

"http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_missionupdate_index.html";

This comment about Ariane 5 is clearly debatable, since four
of the vehicle's 25 launches have failed.

So, which rocket really *is* the "world's best launcher"?

- Ed Kyle

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