Missiles

Hazardous operations, rocket launching 220500Z to 221700Z aug, alternate 0500Z to 1700Z daily 23 and 24 aug…

Arctic Ocean · HYDROARC 168/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-08-24 18:00Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA XX 116/23 171702Z AUG 23.. Issued 2023-08-17 17:08Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Arctic Ocean. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

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Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2023-08-22 05:00Z2023-08-22 17:00Z—12 h

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2023-08-17 17:08Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2023-08-24 18:00Z
authority
NAVAREA XX 116/23 171702Z AUG 23.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XX · named as the source of this relay
sea
Arctic Ocean
position
78.425, 122.458
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARCTIC.
KARA SEA.
LAPTEV SEA.
RUSSIA.
DNC 22, DNC 27.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   220500Z TO 221700Z AUG, ALTERNATE
   0500Z TO 1700Z DAILY 23 AND 24 AUG
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 79-00.00N 110-00.00E, 79-00.00N 135-00.00E,
      77-20.00N 125-00.00E, 77-20.00N 120-00.00E,
      77-51.00N 116-44.00E.
   B. 76-50.00N 079-25.00E, 77-42.00N 087-26.00E,
      76-49.00N 088-40.00E, 76-00.00N 081-07.00E
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 241800Z AUG 23.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Hazardous operations
NGA's heading for activities that make an area dangerous — most often rocket launches, space debris and weapons firings, and some open-ended danger areas.
Rocket launching
The areas where spent rocket stages, boosters and fairings are expected to fall after a launch, with the launch window.
Date-time group (DTG)
A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Area bound by
Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
Position (degrees and minutes)
How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · missile & rocket hazards

18 within 180 nm since 2017 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

17
20
23

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
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N
D

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

4 missile & rocket hazards listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 22:10Z; source collection times vary.

Missiles

Missile firings, rocket launches and space debris re-entry areas. All current missile & rocket hazards →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.