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The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, the first of the NASA's Artemis program, ends with a splashdown of the Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California at 17:40 UTC.
2022-12-11

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says that the mass release of wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed. The water, which has been inside the plant since the 2011 meltdown, is planned to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean over several decades despite strong opposition from local fishermen and the governments of China and South Korea.
2021-10-17

SpaceX successfully launches the JCSAT-18 and Kacific 1 communications satellites on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The satellites will bring Internet access to isolated islands in the Pacific Ocean.
2019-12-16

Hurricane Rosa strengthens to a category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to affect parts of the coastlines of southwestern Mexico, the Baja California Peninsula, and Southern California.
2018-09-28

Hurricane Lane weakens to a Category 3 storm and is expected to pass south of Hawaii throughout the next few days.
2018-08-19

Hurricane Hector becomes the fourth named hurricane of the eastern Pacific's hurricane season.
2018-08-2

Hector is forecast to strengthen into a category 3 storm the next few days.
2018-08-2

The wreckage of the Indianapolis 6 heavy cruiser, torpedoed by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 and sunk in 1945 after delivering parts for the Little Boy atomic weapon, is discovered on the floor of the North Pacific Ocean. Only 317 of the U.S. Sailors-Marines who survived the sinking were finally rescued after 4–5 days in shark-infested waters.
2017-08-19

The small Pacific state of Nauru has run out of money following a legal dispute in Australia.
2014-09-26

The Sea Launch consortium successfully launches its Zenit-3SL carrier rocket with the Eutelsat 70B satellite from the Odyssey Launch Platform in the Pacific Ocean.
2012-12-3