The local space context of Al Mansurah 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 | 31.036° N, 31.381° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 621,953 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deversoir Air Base | 114 km SE (127°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Jabal Hamzah | 125 km SW (216°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 270 km ENE (66°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 329 km ENE (72°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 344 km ENE (76°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 345 km E (90°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 510 km NE (50°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 607 km ENE (57°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 673 km NE (46°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| NAMFI target launch site: either Ftena, Pachia or Makra | 755 km SE (139°) | 25.800° N, 36.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 758 km NE (53°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 784 km NE (43°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 803 km NE (39°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 816 km ENE (73°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 838 km NW (309°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 1 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, 20,252 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 31.036° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,999 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 53.8° 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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