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Hazardous operations, rocket launching: a. 050806Z to 050852Z oct, alternate 060759Z to 060845Z, 070751Z to…

North Pacific · California · 2 notices · issued 2026-09-11 to 2026-09-25

What the reports establish

These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.

Earliest dated evidence
NAVAREA XII 625/26
2026-09-11 07:07Z
Latest dated evidence
NAVAREA XII 671/26
2026-09-25 09:25Z
Recorded notice status
0 listed active
2 cancelled or archived

Collected from NGA navigational warnings. Issue dates order the reports, not the start and end of the underlying situation. A cancelled notice does not confirm recovery.

Current notices and reporting context in the North Pacific Ocean →

What the numbers show

The 2 located notices give 2 distinct positions; the two farthest apart are 19.5 nautical miles apart.

Together the notices were in force for 3.3 days over an issue span of 14.1 days; overlapping notices are counted once.

Reading these warnings

Hazardous operations
NGA's heading for activities that make an area dangerous — most often rocket launches, space debris and weapons firings, and some open-ended danger areas.
Rocket launching
The areas where spent rocket stages, boosters and fairings are expected to fall after a launch, with the launch window.
Date-time group (DTG)
A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Area bound by
Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
Position (degrees and minutes)
How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Representative geometry selected from a member warning when this group was assembled. It is not the full affected area or a track. Each linked notice retains its own reported location.

Report comparison · 2 notices

Each report is compared with an earlier notice it explicitly cancels, when available, or with the preceding report. Changes refer to recorded wording and parsed fields; quoted lines are textual differences, not a verified account of how an incident developed. Nearby reports can describe different hazards. A status explanation is given once, on the first notice with that status.

  1. 1
    NAVAREA XII 625/26Issued 2026-09-11 07:07Z · NGA navigational warnings

    Hazardous rocket launching operations occur off California in the North Pacific from 16 September 0100-0523 UTC, daily 17-22 September, and 0100-0543 UTC, canceled 22 September 0643 UTC.

    Cancelled notice · 2026-09-10 13:50Z

    This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.

    Earliest dated notice in this group. The archive does not establish whether it was the first report of the situation.

    Original warning text · NAVAREA XII 625/26
    NORTH PACIFIC.
CALIFORNIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING:
   A. 160100Z TO 160523Z SEP, ALTERNATE
      0100Z TO 0523Z DAILY 17 THRU 22 SEP
      IN AREA BOUND BY
      32-01.00N 120-03.00W, 32-01.00N 120-00.00W,
      33-22.00N 120-12.00W, 34-27.00N 120-23.00W,
      34-40.00N 120-36.00W, 34-39.00N 120-40.00W,
      34-20.00N 120-39.00W, 33-04.00N 120-20.00W.
   B. 160100Z TO 160543Z SEP, ALTERNATE
      0100Z TO 0543Z DAILY 17 THRU 22 SEP
      IN AREA BOUND BY
      27-40.00N 119-16.00W, 28-41.00N 119-53.00W,
      28-57.00N 119-55.00W, 30-45.00N 119-47.00W,
      28-55.00N 118-46.00W, 28-39.00N 118-43.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220643Z SEP 26.
  2. 2
    NAVAREA XII 671/26Issued 2026-09-25 09:25Z · NGA navigational warnings

    Hazardous rocket launches occur off California in the North Pacific from October 5 to 11, 2026, in specified areas.

    Cancelled notice · 2026-09-28 16:45Z

    Compared with the preceding report; no direct cancellation link is recorded: NAVAREA XII 625/26.

    Reported position
    Earlier: 29.966, -119.592
    This report: 29.642, -119.600
    Reported geometry
    Earlier: Previous parsed shape
    This report: Different parsed shape; see this message's map
    Activity windows
    Earlier: 2026-09-16 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-16 05:23 UTC; 2026-09-16 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-16 05:43 UTC; 2026-09-17 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-17 05:23 UTC; 2026-09-17 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-17 05:43 UTC; 2026-09-18 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-18 05:23 UTC; 2026-09-18 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-18 05:43 UTC; 2026-09-19 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-19 05:23 UTC; 2026-09-19 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-19 05:43 UTC; 2026-09-20 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-20 05:23 UTC; 2026-09-20 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-20 05:43 UTC; 2026-09-21 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-21 05:23 UTC; 2026-09-21 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-21 05:43 UTC; 2026-09-22 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-22 05:23 UTC; 2026-09-22 01:00 UTC to 2026-09-22 05:43 UTC
    This report: 2026-10-05 08:06 UTC to 2026-10-05 08:52 UTC; 2026-10-05 08:06 UTC to 2026-10-05 09:11 UTC; 2026-10-06 07:59 UTC to 2026-10-06 08:45 UTC; 2026-10-06 07:59 UTC to 2026-10-06 09:04 UTC; 2026-10-07 07:51 UTC to 2026-10-07 08:37 UTC; 2026-10-07 07:51 UTC to 2026-10-07 08:56 UTC; 2026-10-08 07:44 UTC to 2026-10-08 08:30 UTC; 2026-10-08 07:44 UTC to 2026-10-08 08:49 UTC; 2026-10-09 07:36 UTC to 2026-10-09 08:22 UTC; 2026-10-09 07:36 UTC to 2026-10-09 08:41 UTC; 2026-10-10 07:29 UTC to 2026-10-10 08:15 UTC; 2026-10-10 07:29 UTC to 2026-10-10 08:34 UTC; 2026-10-11 07:21 UTC to 2026-10-11 08:07 UTC; 2026-10-11 07:21 UTC to 2026-10-11 08:26 UTC

    Wording in earlier report

    A. 160100Z TO 160523Z SEP, ALTERNATE
    0100Z TO 0523Z DAILY 17 THRU 22 SEP

    Wording in this report

    A. 050806Z TO 050852Z OCT, ALTERNATE
    060759Z TO 060845Z, 070751Z TO 070837Z,
    Original warning text · NAVAREA XII 671/26
    NORTH PACIFIC.
CALIFORNIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING:
   A. 050806Z TO 050852Z OCT, ALTERNATE
      060759Z TO 060845Z, 070751Z TO 070837Z,
      080744Z TO 080830Z, 090736Z TO 090822Z,
      100729Z TO 100815Z AND
      110721Z TO 110807Z OCT IN AREA BOUND BY
      30-23.00N 119-52.00W, 31-20.00N 120-03.00W,
      32-32.00N 120-14.00W, 34-33.00N 120-42.00W,
      34-40.00N 120-38.00W, 34-38.00N 120-27.00W,
      32-30.00N 120-09.00W, 30-41.00N 119-48.00W,
      30-24.00N 119-49.00W.
   B. 050806Z TO 050911Z OCT, ALTERNATE
      060759Z TO 060904Z, 070751Z TO 070856Z,
      080744Z TO 080849Z, 090736Z TO 090841Z,
      100729Z TO 100834Z AND
      110721Z TO 110826Z OCT IN AREA BOUND BY
      30-21.00N 119-56.00W, 30-20.00N 119-31.00W,
      29-47.00N 118-49.00W, 29-25.00N 118-45.00W,
      28-55.00N 119-16.00W, 28-56.00N 119-41.00W,
      29-30.00N 120-23.00W, 29-52.00N 120-27.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 110926Z OCT 26.

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