Atlas 5 launch 2025-04-28 - debris NOTAM for SW England
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I think this applies to the planned Atlas 5 Kuiper 1 launch from Canaveral in about 40 minutes:
For those who can't mentally visualise a set of coordinates, the debris danger area is here:
It's a clear night, so there's a (very slim) chance of seeing something for those in the south west - worth a look for 25 minutes or so after midnight (best to check the thing actually went up before standing about like a lemon though)
Edited: Not as sausage - assuming the projected debris track in the event of a second stage failure at the worst possible moment then I was wondering if the second stage would be visible as it went overhead in the normal course of things - I've seen Dragon going over chasing the ISS in the past - but either it was so long after sunset it wasn't illuminated, or the light pollution down here has got a lot worse in recent years.
Don't think I've ever seen a debris warning NOTAM for a Canaveral launch covering the UK before though - that was what piqued my interest. Maybe they're getting a bit more twitchy after the recent Space X failures - apparently the launch had been scheduled for a much busier time of day in terms of transatlantic flights in the NOTAM'd area, and CAA /NATS successfully petitioned for a much later launch time.
Q)EGXX/QRDCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/5121N01457W579
B)2504282300 C)2504290307
E)TEMPO DANGER AREA (TDA) ESTABLISHED - EGD091. (EID 015 SHANNON FIR
SEGMENT). WI AREA BOUNDED BY
STRAIGHT LINES JOINING:
520900N 0300000W - 524100N 0183300W - 523200N 0150000W -
520200N 0150000W - 512800N 0081700W - 512000N 0072300W -
501200N 0000000E - 500000N 0001500W - 510600N 0074900W -
511100N 0082000W - 513900N 0150000W - 510900N 0150000W -
511300N 0164700W - 505000N 0281300W - 503300N 0300000W -
520900N 0300000W. POTENTIAL DEBRIS AREA POSING INCREASED RISK TO
AVIATION. A SPECIAL USE AIRSPACE ACTIVITY INFORMATION SERVICE
(SUAAIS) WILL BE AVAILABLE IN LONDON FIR VIA LONDON INFORMATION
124.750MHZ. AR-2025-2885/01.
F)SFC G)UNL
For those who can't mentally visualise a set of coordinates, the debris danger area is here:
It's a clear night, so there's a (very slim) chance of seeing something for those in the south west - worth a look for 25 minutes or so after midnight (best to check the thing actually went up before standing about like a lemon though)
Edited: Not as sausage - assuming the projected debris track in the event of a second stage failure at the worst possible moment then I was wondering if the second stage would be visible as it went overhead in the normal course of things - I've seen Dragon going over chasing the ISS in the past - but either it was so long after sunset it wasn't illuminated, or the light pollution down here has got a lot worse in recent years.
Don't think I've ever seen a debris warning NOTAM for a Canaveral launch covering the UK before though - that was what piqued my interest. Maybe they're getting a bit more twitchy after the recent Space X failures - apparently the launch had been scheduled for a much busier time of day in terms of transatlantic flights in the NOTAM'd area, and CAA /NATS successfully petitioned for a much later launch time.
Edited by eharding on Tuesday 29th April 00:45
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