Last year north korea launched 23 in one day.

I don't think those were orbital class rockets?

If we are talking simple missiles.... It'd be hard to really quantify anything against world war 2...

Since October, Israel has launched at least 7,400 into Gaza.

Between June 1944 and March 1945 the Germans hurled 10,500 V-1s at Great Britain. Most of the missiles never reached their targets.

I couldn't easily find the # of rockets from the allies, though I'd guess it's a much smaller number, since they were delayed compared to Germany.

I couldn't find an easy # for the Ukrainian and Russian war.

So unless this latest disaster in Gaza ends soon, I'm betting they will handily beat the V-1 rockets.

Note: I'm not trying to side either way in this comment between any of the countries involved, All of the conflicts are a mess and I'm definitely not qualified to have an informed opinion.

A rocket that flies 50 km, or even 500 km, while reaching 2-3M and carrying 200 kg of payload, is a much, much simpler machine than a rocket that makes it to LEO and reaches about 26M while carrying several tons of payload. (And then deorbits and lands!)

You have your directions mixed up. It's 7,400 from Gaza into Israel.

Also, they're "missiles" in the same sense that your fireworks are missiles. Death count is zero.

The V-1 was not a rocket; it was a “flying bomb” powered by a jet engine, what we would today call a “cruise missile”, except cruise missiles tend to have guidance systems. The V-2 was the rocket.

If you’re going to count the rockets in the Gaza conflict (which are predominantly fired by Hamas and PIJ against Israel) or the rockets being used in Ukraine, those aren’t nearly as sophisticated as even the V-2. Those systems are more analogous to the Soviet “Katyusha”. There were different Katyusha variants, but one of the most common was the BM-13, which could fire a salvo of 24 rockets from a truck before being reloaded. Thousands of Katyushas were produced, so I’m pretty sure they account for hundreds of thousands of rockets overall. Very similar to the Katyusha rocket (in fact, basically the exact same rocket for the Soviets at the time) are the rockets fired by airplanes and later helicopters at ground targets, so you could add those in as well.

And if you want to get downright pedantic and count every type of rocket, there are also various shoulder launched rocket launchers like the RPG which are extremely common. Guided missiles are also technically rockets. So the actual numbers are much, much, much higher than you think.

And one day at an amateur high powered rocketry launch and you'll get 100(s?) of launch(es).

For major rocketry, other than SpaceX, by a considerable margin, yes.

Not really a huge margin, Roskosmos launched 2 on February 14, 1989, from the same launch site.

Edit: Also just read that on the same day, the first GPS satellites were also launched from the US.

I guess 3 instead of 2 would be a 50% increase, which could be counted as a "huge margin".

It's also the smallest possible margin ;)

Depends on what you call “major”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history:

“From a field near the village of Serooskerke, five V-2s were launched on 15 and 16 September, with one more successful and one failed launch on the 18th“

That must mean they launched at least 3 on either the 15th or the 16th.

That page also says “Beginning in September 1944, more than 3,000 V-2s were launched” and “The final two rockets exploded on 27 March 1945”, so that’s over 3,000 in at most 208 days, so there must have been days there were at least 14 “launches in a single day by the same entity”. I suspect the actual top number is a lot higher.

If you think that’s borderline “a single entity”, there’s “After the US Army captured the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen on 7 March 1945, the Germans were desperate to destroy it. On 17 March 1945, they fired eleven V-2 missiles at the bridge”

Presumably they meant orbital launches.

If I understand things correctly, this launch won’t (try to) complete an orbit, either. It will make a water landing after less than one time around the earth.

To be pedantic, this launch will have orbital velocity; if it was circular it would be orbital. IOW, it's an orbit that intersects the Earth. So it is orbital by some definitions but not by others.

Right, I believe they will be a few tens of meters per second short of orbital velocity.

Why spend so much time on purposefully misunderstanding the original question?

In 1966 NASA launched two rockets to LEO as part of the Gemini 12 mission - under 2 hours apart (Gemini, Athena docking target.)

As for SpaceX, just a few months ago the Psyche asteroid mission and a Starlink launch also happened the same day.

maybe you should have said "not in anger" :)

orbital, definitely

Yes, but it’s more impressive when considered alongside the fact that their biggest domestic competitor, ULA, did ~7 launches in all of 2022.