Launch or test range

EASTERN RANGE OP

Recorded as: EASTERN RANGE OP

The name suggests a launch or test range; seahazards has not verified who this issuer is. What follows is what the messages recorded under this name show.

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

424 messages in this archive record EASTERN RANGE OP as their authority, issued from 2006-11-20 to 2016-09-09. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Missiles accounts for 319 of 424 recorded messages (75%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (340), NAVAREA XII (9) and NAVAREA XV (1).

Located messages lie in 5 sea areas, most often North Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2014, with 87 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in March and least often in October.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (340), HYDROPAC (51), HYDROLANT (24) and NAVAREA XII (9).

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 340 · NAVAREA XII 9 · NAVAREA XV 1

Most recently issued

Earliest in the archive

NAVAREA IV 319/06 · Exercises · North Atlantic Ocean2006-11-20
Hazardous operations 200600Z to 240600Z nov in areas bound by a. 29-08N 076-29W, 28-32N 076-29W, 28-32N…

Other launch or test ranges in NAVAREA IV

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.