Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 3
Workload; Distraction; Situational Awareness; Confusion; Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types; Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification
Airspace Structure; Chart Or Publication; Procedure
I was working the shift when there was a reentry Dragon rocket. The packet with the information only had the landing zone and the monitoring aircraft. The problem was there was no information on the reentry flight path so it caught me by surprise when it was coming in over the top of my traffic. All of the airplanes started asking what it was and I didn't know which direction to call traffic for any of them or give them an option of the area to miss if they were uncomfortable with the situation.My recommendation is more information passed along. I had multiple airplanes close to the flight path and I had no way of helping them if they needed vectors because they were uncomfortable.
Center Controller at ZJX reported they were not given sufficient information about a rocket reentry and could not provide traffic information or vectors for separation to aircraft in their sector.