Missiles

Hazardous operations, rocket launching 020400Z to 020800Z sep: a. in area within ten miles of 13-43.19N…

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 2799/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-09-02 09:00Z

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 VIII 760/23 301010Z AUG 23.. Issued 2023-08-30 18:12Z. 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: South Pacific 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.

Current notices and reporting history in the South Pacific Ocean →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2023-09-02 04:00Z	2023-09-02 08:00Z	—	4 h

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

issued: 2023-08-30 18:12Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2023-09-02 09:00Z
authority: NAVAREA VIII 760/23 301010Z AUG 23.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea: South Pacific Ocean
position: -12.296, -103.444
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ANDAMAN SEA.
BAY OF BENGAL.
EASTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
INDIA.
DNC 03, DNC 06, DNC 07.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   020400Z TO 020800Z SEP:
   A. IN AREA WITHIN TEN MILES OF 13-43.19N 080-13.80E.
   B. IN AREA BOUND BY
      13-30.00N 080-30.00E, 13-50.00N 080-35.00E,
      13-35.00N 081-30.00E, 13-15.00N 081-25.00E.
   C. IN AREA BOUND BY
      13-00.00N 082-10.00E, 13-30.00N 082-15.00E,
      12-55.00N 084-05.00E, 12-25.00N 084-00.00E.
   D. IN AREA BOUND BY
      12-20.00N 084-05.00E, 13-00.00N 084-15.00E,
      12-45.00N 085-10.00E, 12-05.00N 085-00.00E.
   E. IN AREA BOUND BY
      11-10.00N 088-25.00E, 11-45.00N 088-35.00E,
      11-25.00N 089-50.00E, 10-50.00N 089-40.00E.
   F. IN AREA BOUND BY
      09-05.00N 094-50.00E, 09-55.00N 095-05.00E,
      09-35.00N 096-00.00E, 08-45.00N 095-45.00E.
   G. IN AREA BOUND BY
      19-00.00S 132-40.00W, 17-00.00S 132-40.00W,
      13-00.00S 112-00.00W, 06-30.00S 091-00.00W,
      08-30.00S 091-00.00W, 15-00.00S 112-00.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 020900Z SEP 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.
Within a radius of: A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
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.
Area bound by: Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · missile & rocket hazards

14 within 180 nm since 2014 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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.

Hazardous operations, rocket launching 010200Z to 010600Z jan 24 a. in area bound by 13-41.00N 080-14.00E,…2023-12-29
Hazardous operations, rocket launching 1200Z to 1600Z daily 30 jun thru 02 jul: a. in area within ten miles…2022-06-25
Hazardous operations, rocket launching 170930Z to 171330Z dec in areas: a. within ten miles of 13-43.2N…2020-12-14
Rockets2016-04-24
Rockets2016-03-06
Rockets2016-01-15

Month of issue in the collected archive

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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

4 missile & rocket hazards listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:11Z; source collection times vary.

Missiles

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

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