Keywords
, suborbital launch vehicles
test range
maritime safety
safety&defense
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Abstract
This paper presents the topic of ensuring maritime traffic safety during a rocket flight, and examines it by providing an example of two flights performed by a Polish suborbital rocket ILR-33 AMBER 2K. Comparing approaches to rocket flight safety in Poland and Norway is presented in the context of a rocket flight to the Kárman line in Norway, held in July 2024. The thesis of this paper is that launching such a flight safely from Poland would be unfeasible, as demonstrated by current regulations and numerical computations based on maritime traffic data obtained from the automatic identification system (AIS) records. A discussion regarding feasibility of future suborbital flights from Polish shore concludes the paper.
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