Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Provides Traffic Update for Upcoming Artemis Rocket Launch
By Space Coast Daily // March 30, 2026
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – As we approach Wednesday’s exciting Artemis II launch around the moon, our agency in partnership with the Brevard County Emergency Operations Center wanted to provide our citizens with some traffic information that will help their evening commute home and around town.
The launch window for Artemis is from 6:24pm to 8:24pm Wednesday evening, so without question our morning traffic will be extremely active as we anticipate up to 400,000 visitors coming to Brevard County to watch this amazing piece of history!!
In an effort to limit congestion as much as possible please keep the following things in mind:
1. If you live in the area and can stay off the roadways, please do so to avoid adding to the congestion!!
2. If you must commute the morning of the launch please add extra travel time to safely get students to school and parents to work!!
3. Watch for and yield to pedestrians/bicyclists crossing the roadways as there will be a lot of people out and about to watch history in the making.
In addition to the above tips and so that you can prepare for any changes you may need to make, please take time to review the post-launch traffic plan that will be implemented immediately following the launch for outbound traffic:
• 𝐒𝐑 𝟓𝟐𝟖: Eastbound motorists on SR 528 will proceed eastbound to A1A south. Use SR 520 westbound as an alternate to SR 528. Westbound motorists on SR 528 will continue west on SR 528.
• 𝐔𝐒𝟏/𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐭 (𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐬𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞): All motorists north of Harrison St will proceed northbound on US-1. All vehicles south of Harrison, proceed southbound on US-1.
• 𝐀𝟏𝐀 (𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡): NO LEFT TURN from northbound A1A to SR 520 westbound. 𝐍𝐎 𝐔-𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐑 𝟓𝟐𝟖 𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐄 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐋𝐕𝐃. Southbound should proceed to SR 404 (Pineda Causeway) to US 1 or I-95.
Our team will be out in full force Wednesday as we look forward to watching this historic event with our community while also working to ensure the safety of our citizens and visitors!!
Sheriff Wayne Ivey
