Eastern Range
Recorded as: EASTERN RANGE
The U.S. Space Force launch range at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its warnings define the hazard areas downrange of launches over the Atlantic.
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
1,511 messages in this archive record EASTERN RANGE as their authority, issued from 2014-08-19 to 2024-05-10. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.
Missiles accounts for 963 of 1,511 recorded messages (64%), the largest warning type group in this selection.
Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (1,093) and NAVAREA XII (65).
Located messages lie in 5 sea areas, most often North Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.
The largest yearly count is 2022, with 293 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.
Across all years its messages are issued most often in January and least often in July.
They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (1,093), HYDROPAC (304), NAVAREA XII (65) and HYDROLANT (49).
Messages by year of issue
By month of issue, all years
Warning types
Where
NAVAREA IV 1,093 · NAVAREA XII 65
Most recently issued
- HYDROPAC 1553/24 · Missiles · Indian Ocean2024-05-10Hazardous operations, space debris 172249Z to 172351Z may, alternate 182224Z to 182326Z and 212113Z to…
- NAVAREA IV 525/24 · Missiles · North Atlantic Ocean2024-05-10Hazardous operations, rocket launching 172209Z to 172307Z may, alternate 182144Z to 182242Z and 212033Z to…
- NAVAREA IV 519/24 · Other2024-05-08Cancel NAVAREA IV 507/24 and this msg, operations completed
- NAVAREA IV 510/24 · Missiles · North Atlantic Ocean2024-05-07Florida 1. hazardous operations, rocket launching 130011Z to 130442Z may, alternate 132345Z to 140416Z,…
- NAVAREA IV 508/24 · Other2024-05-06Florida cancel NAVAREA IV 495/24 and this msg, operations completed
- NAVAREA IV 507/24 · Missiles · North Atlantic Ocean2024-05-06Hazardous operations, rocket launching 081442Z to 081913Z may, alternate 091416Z to 091847Z, 101350Z to…
- NAVAREA IV 497/24 · Other2024-05-03Cancel NAVAREA IV 482/24 and this msg, operations completed
- HYDROPAC 1465/24 · Missiles · Indian Ocean2024-05-03Hazardous operations, space debris 070309Z to 070401Z may, alternate 080246Z to 080338Z and 110135Z to…
Earliest in the archive
Other launch or test ranges in NAVAREA IV
- SPACEX571
- EASTERN RANGE OP424
- CCAFS418
- 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.