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Hazardous operations, rocket launching 011500Z to 011550Z oct, alternate 021438Z to 021528Z, 031415Z to…

North Atlantic · Florida · 2 notices · issued 2026-09-25 to 2026-09-30

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 IV 931/26
2026-09-25 18:16Z
Latest dated evidence
NAVAREA IV 951/26
2026-09-30 14:35Z
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 Atlantic Ocean →

What the numbers show

The 2 located notices give 2 distinct positions; the two farthest apart are 0.3 nautical miles apart.

Together the notices were in force for 4.0 days over an issue span of 4.8 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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
NAVAREA
One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.

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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 IV 931/26Issued 2026-09-25 18:16Z · NGA navigational warnings

    Rocket launching creates hazardous operations off Florida in the North Atlantic from 1 to 7 October in two designated areas.

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

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

    Cancelled by NAVAREA IV 951/26

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

    Original warning text · NAVAREA IV 931/26
    NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   011500Z TO 011550Z OCT, ALTERNATE
   021438Z TO 021528Z, 031415Z TO 031505Z,
   041352Z TO 041442Z, 051330Z TO 051420Z,
   061304Z TO 061354Z, 071242Z TO 071332Z OCT
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 30-43.00N 078-30.00W, 31-53.00N 077-11.00W,
      31-43.00N 076-57.00W, 30-31.00N 078-19.00W.
   B. 28-39.23N 080-37.57W, 28-43.14N 080-32.44W,
      28-51.00N 080-24.00W, 28-51.00N 080-18.00W,
      28-50.00N 080-16.00W, 28-44.00N 080-16.00W,
      28-33.00N 080-27.00W, 28-30.30N 080-33.20W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 071432Z OCT 26.

251542Z SEP.
  2. 2
    NAVAREA IV 951/26Issued 2026-09-30 14:35Z · NGA navigational warnings

    Rocket launching creates hazardous operations off Florida in the North Atlantic from October 1 to 7, with specific times and areas closed.

    Cancelled notice · 2026-10-01 16:15Z

    Cancels NAVAREA IV 931/26

    Compared with its linked earlier notice: NAVAREA IV 931/26.

    Reported position
    Earlier: 30.906, -78.061
    This report: 30.903, -78.065
    Reported geometry
    Earlier: Previous parsed shape
    This report: Different parsed shape; see this message's map

    Wording in earlier report

    B. 28-39.23N 080-37.57W, 28-43.14N 080-32.44W,
    28-33.00N 080-27.00W, 28-30.30N 080-33.20W.

    Wording in this report

    B. 28-39.38N 080-37.95W, 28-43.23N 080-32.73W,
    28-33.00N 080-27.00W, 28-30.50N 080-33.03W.
    Original warning text · NAVAREA IV 951/26
    NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   011500Z TO 011550Z OCT, ALTERNATE
   021438Z TO 021528Z, 031415Z TO 031505Z,
   041352Z TO 041442Z, 051330Z TO 051420Z,
   061304Z TO 061354Z, 071242Z TO 071332Z OCT
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 30-43.00N 078-30.00W, 31-53.00N 077-11.00W,
      31-43.00N 076-57.00W, 30-31.00N 078-19.00W.
   B. 28-39.38N 080-37.95W, 28-43.23N 080-32.73W,
      28-51.00N 080-24.00W, 28-51.00N 080-18.00W,
      28-50.00N 080-16.00W, 28-44.00N 080-16.00W,
      28-33.00N 080-27.00W, 28-30.50N 080-33.03W.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 931/26.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 071432Z OCT 26.

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