Cape Canaveral (Air Force / Space Force Station)
Recorded as: CCAFS
The launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida, recorded under its station name in older messages.
Launch and test ranges announce the sea areas that may be dangerous during a rocket launch, a missile test or the recovery of spent stages: where parts may fall, and in which time windows. Their warnings are among the most precisely defined in the archive — polygons with start and end times that cancel themselves when the last window closes.
What the archive holds
418 messages in this archive record CCAFS as their authority, issued from 1999-05-18 to 2010-11-04. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.
Exercises accounts for 371 of 418 recorded messages (89%), the largest warning type group in this selection.
Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (263), NAVAREA XII (31) and NAVAREA II (1).
Located messages lie in 5 sea areas, most often North Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean and North Pacific Ocean.
The largest yearly count is 2001, with 82 messages.
Across all years its messages are issued most often in May and least often in September.
They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (263), HYDROPAC (78), HYDROLANT (46) and NAVAREA XII (31).
Messages by year of issue
By month of issue, all years
Warning types
Where
NAVAREA IV 263 · NAVAREA XII 31 · NAVAREA II 1 · NAVAREA IX 1 · NAVAREA XV 1
Most recently issued
- HYDROPAC 2363/10 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2010-11-04Hazardous operations 051918Z to 052058Z nov, alternate 061856Z to 062032Z and 071831Z to 072009Z nov in area…
- NAVAREA IV 456/10 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2010-11-04Hazardous operations 051848Z to 052023Z nov, alternate 061826Z to 061957Z and 071801Z to 071934Z nov in…
- NAVAREA IV 447/10 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2010-10-29Hazardous operations 022002Z to 022133Z nov, alternate 031937Z to 032111Z and 041914Z to 042045Z nov in…
- HYDROPAC 2301/10 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2010-10-29Hazardous operations 022032Z to 022208Z nov, alternate 032007Z to 032146Z and 041944Z to 042220Z nov in area…
- HYDROPAC 2256/10 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2010-10-27Hazardous operations 012055Z to 012234Z nov, alternate 022032Z to 022208Z nov in area bound by 42-59S…
- NAVAREA IV 442/10 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2010-10-27Hazardous operations 012025Z to 012159Z nov, alternate 022002Z to 022133Z nov in areas bound by: a. 28-37N…
- HYDROPAC 958/10 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2010-05-09Hazardous operations 141835Z to 142011Z may, alternate 151809Z to 151948Z may in area bound by 42-59S…
- NAVAREA IV 188/10 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2010-05-09Hazardous operations 141805Z to 141936Z may, alternate 151739Z to 151913Z may in areas bound by: a. 28-28N…
Earliest in the archive
Other launch or test ranges in NAVAREA IV
- EASTERN RANGE1,511
- SPACEX571
- EASTERN RANGE OP424
- WESTERN RANGE395
- WALLOPS230
Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.