Where states close the sky and sea for launches.
Launch and reentry closure areas from NOTAMs and navigational warnings: what is announced now, which scheduled launches coincide with it, a searchable history since 2023, and where each pad's closures fall. Every area shows the issuer's own text. A closure announces intent: some are cancelled, some are never used.
United States China Russia Everyone else, by flag and code
Not for navigation or flight planning. Shapes are read from the notices' text or charted by hand, and either can be wrong; every area says which. Worldwide NOTAMs arrive once the FAA grants Launch access to its NOTAM service (requested 13 Nov 2026); until then the live areas are the FAA's space-operations TFRs and the navigational warnings Orbit reads.
Map
Grey outlines: live closure areas. Coloured: the history event you select (launching country's colour), with its flight path dashed. Amber dashed: recurring drop zones, when shown. Purple: what you paste. Rings: pads of launches scheduled in the next 14 days. Ctrl and scroll (or two fingers) to zoom.
Live: closure areas and scheduled launches
A coincidence is named by its level. Time: a launch's scheduled time falls in an area's window of four hours or less, or up to an hour before it opens. Time and place: also, the area lies in an azimuth band and at a distance where the pad's history has closures. Grouped: GCAT has since dated a launch from that site inside the window. None says an area is for a launch.
Areas in force or announced
History
Launches and notices from Tom Brummer's launch map, 2023 to now: closure areas with the notices' text, flight paths and pads. Search any word (vehicle, payload, NOTAM number, FIR, place) and narrow by the filters. Select a row to draw it.
Patterns
Counted from the history; nothing here is predicted. Inclination is estimated from the bearing of each closure area from its pad (cos i = cos latitude × sin azimuth), which holds for a launch without a dog-leg.
Closure corridors by pad
Recurring drop zones (three or more events within 25 NM)
Notices by FIR and year
How long closures stay open
Launch hour (UTC) by country
Paste a NOTAM
Paste one or more ICAO-format NOTAMs and they are read and drawn here, in your browser; nothing you paste leaves this page. Coordinates that fit no known form are listed, not guessed.
Sources and method
Method launch-1.0. The NASASpaceflight forum's "Chinese NOTAMs thread" and Russian
launch discussion are linked from history entries, not collected. Notes on Tom's map that are not public notices
are not shown.