Launch or test range · United States

NASA Wallops Flight Facility

Recorded as: WALLOPS

NASA's launch range on Virginia's Eastern Shore, used for rockets, sounding rockets and research flights; its warnings close areas off the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast.

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

230 messages in this archive record WALLOPS as their authority, issued from 2014-06-22 to 2024-04-09. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Missiles accounts for 177 of 230 recorded messages (77%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

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

Located messages lie in 2 sea areas, most often North Atlantic Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2021, with 36 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 June and least often in January.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (228) and HYDROLANT (2).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 228

North Atlantic Ocean 147
South Pacific Ocean 1

Most recently issued

Earliest in the archive

NAVAREA IV 468/14 · Missiles · North Atlantic Ocean2014-06-22
Hazardous operations 260930Z to 261430Z jun, alternate 270930Z to 271430Z jun within: a. three miles of…

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.