Is SpaceX on the way to a reliability record?

Question

One of the most striking phenomena of Falcon 9 launches is how smoothly they go, at least for the outside spectator.

SpaceX launches a lot. Apparently, they have now had 109 successful missions in a row after the Amos-6 failure. (And because that was a static fire test that went wrong I think it is not even a proper a launch failure).

Is this the longest stretch of successful missions ever by a single agency or company?
Since most (or all?) of these were Falcon 9 launches, is it the longest stretch for a model?
If not, how many more successful launches (for SpaceX respectively the Falcon 9) would it take to beat the current record?

Tory Bruno is famous for making ULA's reliability known on twitter — BrendanLuke15, Dec 09 '21 at 13:38
@BrendanLuke15 Ah, interesting. The Delta Heavy launch didn't reach orbit though. — Peter - Reinstate Monica, Dec 09 '21 at 13:45
It did, 28500 / 2004-050A, it just failed to directly inject the payload into GEO — BrendanLuke15, Dec 09 '21 at 14:00
Highly related, probable duplicate https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/52392/is-there-a-record-for-unbroken-series-of-successful-launches-by-some-objective?rq=1 — Organic Marble, Dec 09 '21 at 14:26
@OrganicMarble I agree, that's about my question. Feel free to vote for dup closure. I can also delete it but maybe it's not bad to have a search engine anchor every 6 months ;-). — Peter - Reinstate Monica, Dec 09 '21 at 14:29
@Peter-ReinstateMonica I think if you vote for dupe closure, it will only take your vote to do it. I understand this is an evolving story, but probably better to post updated answers to the other question, once SX passes ULA. — Organic Marble, Dec 09 '21 at 14:30
@OrganicMarble I think you're partly right, the final "Community" vote to close is actually the OP's vote (the Community bot's username is occasionally used as a proxy for other user names that for some reason it doesn't want to name) It seems to take less users to close when the OP concurs, but apparently still a few others. — uhoh, Dec 10 '21 at 00:02
@uhoh I thought i remembered voting to close my own question as a duplicate a couple of times on Ask Ubuntu and it insta-closed (after asking me if I was sure) but maybe that's not what happened. — Organic Marble, Dec 10 '21 at 00:07
@Organic No, it didn't insta-close. There may be differences between the forums, or it is a matter of xp. — Peter - Reinstate Monica, Dec 10 '21 at 06:22

Is SpaceX on the way to a reliability record?

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