Launch or test range · United States

Vandenberg (Air Force / Space Force Base)

Recorded as: VAFB

The launch site at Vandenberg, California, recorded under its base 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

189 messages in this archive record VAFB as their authority, issued from 1999-05-18 to 2010-06-07. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Exercises accounts for 121 of 189 recorded messages (64%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA XII.

Located messages lie in 3 sea areas, most often North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2000, with 48 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in December and least often in April.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA XII (140) and HYDROPAC (49).

Messages by year of issue

'99

'00

'01

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By month of issue, all years

Jan

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Warning types

Exercises 121
Other 68

Where

NAVAREA XII 140

Most recently issued

Earliest in the archive

HYDROPAC 426/99 · Other1999-05-17
Cancel HYDROPAC 422/99 and this msg

Other launch or test ranges in NAVAREA XII

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