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Hazardous operations, rocket launching 020342Z to 020525Z oct, alternate 030338Z to 030520Z, 040334Z to…

North Atlantic · Florida · 2 notices · issued 2026-09-26 to 2026-09-30

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Earliest dated evidence: NAVAREA IV 936/26
2026-09-26 09:13Z
Latest dated evidence: NAVAREA IV 952/26
2026-09-30 16:37Z
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.

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What the numbers show

The 2 located notices give 2 distinct positions; the two farthest apart are 0.2 nautical miles apart.

Together the notices were in force for 3.3 days over an issue span of 4.3 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.
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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.

NAVAREA IV 936/26Issued 2026-09-26 09:13Z · NGA navigational warnings

Hazardous rocket launches are scheduled off Florida and in the North Atlantic from 2 to 8 October at 0342–0525 UTC and other times in specified 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 952/26

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 936/26

NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   020342Z TO 020525Z OCT, ALTERNATE
   030338Z TO 030520Z, 040334Z TO 040516Z,
   050329Z TO 050511Z, 06325Z TO 060506Z,
   070320Z TO 070502Z, AND 080316Z TO 080457Z
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
      A. 30-23.00N 079-06.00W, 31-01.00N 078-45.00W,
         31-38.00N 077-53.00W, 31-28.00N 077-43.00W,
         30-39.00N 078-10.00W, 30-11.00N 078-55.00W.
      B. 28-39.52N 080-38.17W, 29-04.00N 080-16.00W,
         28-57.00N 080-07.00W, 28-28.00N 080-24.00W,
         28-28.00N 080-31.47W.
      C. 37-37.00N 071-37.00W, 40-25.00N 068-00.00W,
         39-48.00N 067-08.00W, 36-53.00N 070-42.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 080657Z OCT 26.

NAVAREA IV 952/26Issued 2026-09-30 16:37Z · NGA navigational warnings

Hazardous operations, rocket launching 020342Z to 020525Z oct, alternate 030338Z to 030520Z, 040334Z to…

Cancelled notice · 2026-10-01 16:15Z

Cancels NAVAREA IV 936/26

Compared with its linked earlier notice: NAVAREA IV 936/26.

Reported position: Earlier: 37.343, -70.903
This report: 37.340, -70.906
Reported geometry: Earlier: Previous parsed shape
This report: Different parsed shape; see this message's map

Wording in earlier report

B. 28-39.52N 080-38.17W, 29-04.00N 080-16.00W,

28-28.00N 080-31.47W.

Wording in this report

B. 28-39.87N 080-38.28W, 29-04.00N 080-16.00W,

28-28.00N 080-31.78W.

Original warning text · NAVAREA IV 952/26

NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   020342Z TO 020525Z OCT, ALTERNATE
   030338Z TO 030520Z, 040334Z TO 040516Z,
   050329Z TO 050511Z, 06325Z TO 060506Z,
   070320Z TO 070502Z, AND 080316Z TO 080457Z
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 30-23.00N 079-06.00W, 31-01.00N 078-45.00W,
      31-38.00N 077-53.00W, 31-28.00N 077-43.00W,
      30-39.00N 078-10.00W, 30-11.00N 078-55.00W.
   B. 28-39.87N 080-38.28W, 29-04.00N 080-16.00W,
      28-57.00N 080-07.00W, 28-28.00N 080-24.00W,
      28-28.00N 080-31.78W.
   C. 37-37.00N 071-37.00W, 40-25.00N 068-00.00W,
      39-48.00N 067-08.00W, 36-53.00N 070-42.00W.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 936/26.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 060657Z OCT 26.

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