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The FLASHForward experiment at DESY is a beam line build for beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration. The drive beams, supplied by the linac of the free-electron laser FLASH, have energies of up to 1.25GeV, a typical charge of 400 pC, emittance of a few mm mrad and a pulse duration down to 50fs. The extensive experimental programme consists of various experiments among which three are considered core experiments, focussing on internally (X-1) and externally (X-2) injected witness bunch acceleration as well as studies on high repetition rate and high average power operation (X-3). The latter is facilitated by the unique capability of extracting multiple electron bunches from the superconducting linac at a variable temporal spacing down to 333 ns. Here the present status of the facility and its capabilities as well as the status of current and future experiments will be detailed.
