Hazardous operations, rocket launching 030400Z to 030600Z sep: a. in area within ten miles of 13-41.00N…
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 2815/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-09-03 07:00Z
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 762/23 010809Z SEP 23.. Issued 2023-09-01 13:26Z. 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
- Bay of Bengal. 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 Bay of Bengal →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-03 04:00Z | 2023-09-03 06:00Z | — | 2 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2023-09-01 13:26Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-09-03 07:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 762/23 010809Z SEP 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 13.544, 81.041
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BENGAL.
INDIA.
DNC 03.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
030400Z TO 030600Z SEP:
A. IN AREA WITHIN TEN MILES OF
13-41.00N 080-14.00E.
B. IN AREA BOUND BY
13-48.82N 080-59.48E, 13-41.14N 081-00.20E,
13-33.25N 080-59.54E, 13-25.59N 080-57.47E,
13-18.36N 080-54.02E, 13-03.34N 081-20.72E,
13-15.23N 081-26.42E, 13-27.88N 081-29.87E,
13-41.05N 081-31.06E, 13-54.11N 081-29.87E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 030700Z 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.
Collected reports in this area · missile & rocket hazards
41 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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 062330 to 070330 apr in area within ten miles of 13-38.30N 080-14.20E2024-04-06
- Hazardous operations, rocket launching 052330Z to 060330Z apr in area within ten miles of 13-38.30N 080-14.20E2024-04-03
- Hazardous operations, rocket launching 0030Z to 0430Z daily 25 thru 28 mar in area within ten miles of…2024-03-22
- Hazardous operations, rocket launching 220030Z to 220430Z mar in area within ten miles of 13-38.30N 080-14.20E2024-03-20
- Hazardous operations, rocket launching 1000Z to 1200Z daily 07 thru 09 nov: a. in area bound by 13-41.00N…2023-11-03
- Hazardous operations, rocket launching 0100Z to 0500Z daily 21 thru 30 oct in area within ten miles of…2023-10-17
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
- Hazardous operations 290830Z to 290930Z sep in area bound by 13-07.02N 080-18.01E, 13-14.90N 080-25.98E,…Exercises · 43.1 nm
- Buoy established in 14-05.21N 080-28.50ENav aids · 46.4 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
4 missile & rocket hazards listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 14:10Z; 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.