In some cases, flight abort tests intentionally come down shortly after launch. The restricted areas are created to keep unwary boaters or gawkers from being under an area where debris or hazardous materials might fall during a launch.Īccording to Chief Warrant Officer John Chandler, Station Port Canaveral’s commanding officer, the highest risk during a launch is typically within the first minute or minute and a half, depending on launch vehicle, configuration, and other factors. On the day of the launch, the warnings are broadcast on marine radio channels. In the case of the KSC launches, the COTP is the sector commander at Jacksonville, assisted by the commanding officer of Station Port Canaveral. Lamb said the captain of the port (COTP) promulgates a notice to mariners and local notice to mariners to set forth those limited access safety areas. On launch day, the Coast Guard will monitor and patrol that zone. During major evolutions at the space center, the 45th, working with NASA and the commercial providers, will publish the limited access safety zone and establish a command center where the Coast Guard will participate. The Coast Guard has a memorandum of agreement with the Space Force’s 45th Space Wing. It might vary, depending on if were dealing with a satellite launch or an astronaut launch.” “It’s scalable, so we can look at all the factors and adjust our force laydown. “We use a local risk assessment tool for each launch,” said Lamb. The volume of space missions is growing as companies provide more opportunities to launch payloads, and space tourism is becoming a thing. When the space shuttle program shut down, major missions departing from the U.S. Jill Lamb, chief of response for Sector Jacksonville, Florida. “We’ve been a mission supporter since 1955,” said Cmdr. The Navy has the ability to launch targets from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai, but these are not orbital missions. NASA also conducts launches from its Wallops Island facility near Chincoteague, Virginia, and SpaceX has developed a commercial launch facility at Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at Cape Canaveral in Florida, NASA and the Air Force also use Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California, on the West Coast. NASA, Department of Defense and commercial space launch sites are located next to the ocean. In fact, the service is involved in ensuring maritime safety and security for almost every U.S. Coast Guard plays an important but little-known role in launch operations. Like all space missions, it involved a myriad of partners and collaborators. The world was transfixed with the images of the NASA Perseverance rover landing on Mars in February. A Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral crew aboard a 45-foot response boat protects the waters near Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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