Tuesday, August 13, 2013

US Space Register?

On August 06th, the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation reserved 40 N-numbers. This division of the FAA approves any commercial rocket launch operations, and for the first time have officially blocked a series of N-numbers. It will be interesting to see how many will be eventually identified.

N351WQ, N352WQ, N353WQ, N354WQ, N355WQ, N356WQ, N357WQ, N358WQ, N359WQ, N360WQ, N361WQ, N362WQ, N363WQ, N364WQ, N365WQ, N366WQ, N367WQ, N368WQ, N369WQ, N370WQ, N441FQ, N442FQ, N443FQ, N444FQ, N445FQ, N446FQ, N448FQ, N449FQ, N450FQ, N451FQ, N452FQ, N453FQ, N454FQ, N455FQ, N456FQ, N457FQ, N458FQ , N459FQ , N460FQ, N461FQ .

3 comments:

Unknown said...

n448fq and n451fq are currently above Oregon at 120k ft with effectively zero separation for what it's worth.

I have not seen weather balloons with N-numbers before, but this is how they appear on ADSBexchange.com

Unknown said...

correction to my above comment:

n448fq is actually being displayed as a drone, while n451fq is a balloon but neither moves at more than single-digit speeds. They have gained a good deal of separation as well.

Carmen Gilstrap said...

For what it’s worth n448fq 449, 450, & 451 are all 4(?) cruising at approx 43k at 64-67knt just north of the Ochoco Mts of Oregon.just north of Mitchell, OR at 0817pst 3dec21. Not sure what these things are so I’m gonna go find out.