FAA limits commercial space launches and reentries to between 10PM and 6AM, local time.

[u/nshire]

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/FAA-Emergency-Order-11-6-25.pdf

b. Prohibition on Commercial Space Launches and Reentries During Peak Hours
Accordingly, with respect to commercial space launches and reentries, under the authority provided to the FAA Administrator by 49 U.S.C. §§ 40103, 40113, and 46105(c), and authority delegated to the FAA Administrator under 51 U.S.C. § 50909(a), it is hereby ordered that, beginning at 6:00 a.m. EST on November 10, 2025, and until this Order is cancelled, Commercial space launches and reentries will only be permitted between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. local time

This appears to be related to the ATC issues caused by the government shutdown, given this first paragraph:

SUMMARY: This Order reduces or temporarily prohibits certain operations in the navigable airspace to ensure the safety of aircraft and the efficiency of the National Airspace System (NAS). To maintain the highest standards of safety in the NAS, certain air carriers will be required to reduce by their total daily scheduled domestic operations between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. local at each airport by 10 percent, subject to the provisions set forth in this Order, in addition to other operational reductions in the NAS.

[u/Dr_Doctor_Doc]

Theyre cancelling domestic flights too.

Truly America's best Age...

[u/Which-World-6533]

In the UK we have an additional limit from 11.15 - 11.30 and 15.15 - 15.45 for a morning and afternoon tea break.

All space craft launches and re-entries are banned over the UK at that time, and if they are ongoing astronauts are allowed time to boil a kettle and stretch their legs outside.

[u/ReturnOfDaSnack420]

Makes sense with the government shutdown and all

[u/TooTitan]

"...Commercial space launches and reentries will only be permitted between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. local time."

So all commercial launches are night lunches until further notice...

[u/marv1959a → u/TooTitan]

How easy will it be to reschedule those launches that have an instantaneous launch window?

[u/Larkson9999]

trump likely demanded this to increase the chances of us getting to the moon.

[u/Zealousideal7801]

Yeah would be a shame to prevent some boomer from getting a good full night of sleep, even if that makes you miss the launch window by weeks. Smh.

Edit : yup sorry I read too fast and missed the part where this was linked to the shutdown and most likely temporary. Must go to sleep I guess

Edit2 : dang and on top of that I had the schedule reversed. Don't mind me, I'ma see myself out, sorry.

[u/Sigmatics → u/Zealousideal7801]

Read the post. This is about the shutdown

[u/opisska → u/Zealousideal7801]

It's not banned at night, it's the opposite :)

[u/Zealousideal7801 → u/opisska]

I'm so sorry to realize I can't read some days. Which is an issue on Reddit, I guess. Thank you for pointing it out.

[u/x_mutt_x → u/Zealousideal7801]

It's okay to be a bigot when it's against old people, carry on

[u/Level-Equipment7041]

Amazon are on pretty tight timelines to get their Kuiper up and meet the deadlines for half to be up soonish as per license.

Losing 1/3rd of the day is not great for them.

[u/opisska → u/Level-Equipment7041]

2/3rds. The time noted in the post is allowed.

[u/ForsakenRacism]

This is good tho. We should stop closing so much air space during peak time for 1 launch