The local space context of Al Maḩallah al Kubrá as this registry holds it — the catalogued human footprint on the ground around it, the orbits that can pass overhead, and the geostationary belt seen from here.
| position | 30.971° N, 31.167° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 592,573 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jabal Hamzah | 108 km SSW (210°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| Deversoir Air Base | 127 km ESE (118°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 292 km ENE (66°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 351 km ENE (72°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 365 km E (89°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 366 km ENE (75°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 530 km NE (50°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 629 km ENE (57°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 693 km NE (47°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| NAMFI target launch site: either Ftena, Pachia or Makra | 763 km SE (138°) | 25.800° N, 36.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 779 km NE (53°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 803 km NE (44°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 821 km NE (40°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 827 km NW (310°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 837 km ENE (73°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 2 more within 1000 km | |||
Distances are great-circle on a sphere of mean radius 6,371 km; bearings are initial true bearings from the city. Each position is the source catalogue's own, read back from the registry.
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit on 2026-10-18, 20,256 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.971° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,995 never reach this latitude.
| space station | inclination | can pass overhead |
|---|---|---|
| Bai Xiang | 85.0° | yes |
| International Space Station (+3 docked records) | 51.6° | yes |
| Kosmos-382 | 55.9° | yes |
| Tianhe | 41.5° | yes |
Computed: an orbit's equatorial inclination bounds the latitudes its track reaches (inclination i, or 180° − i when retrograde), from the orbital elements the registry holds. «Can pass overhead» is geometry, not a schedule — when, and whether it is lit and visible, depends on the hour.
The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands 53.9° above the horizon due south — the elevation to aim at for a satellite at this city's own longitude. Computed: spherical Earth (equatorial radius 6,378.137 km), circular orbit of one sidereal day (42,164 km); good to a few tenths of a degree.
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