The local space context of Alexandria 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 | 31.202° N, 29.916° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 5,263,542 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jabal Hamzah | 137 km SSE (151°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| Deversoir Air Base | 247 km ESE (110°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 397 km ENE (76°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 460 km E (79°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 478 km E (81°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 485 km E (91°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 613 km ENE (59°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 719 km ENE (63°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 721 km NW (314°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 768 km NE (54°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 863 km ENE (59°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NAMFI target launch site: either Ftena, Pachia or Makra | 866 km SE (132°) | 25.800° N, 36.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 873 km NE (50°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 884 km NE (46°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Nissaki-Karystos, Evvoia, Hellas | 908 km NNW (328°) | 38.010° N, 24.420° 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, 20,250 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 31.202° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,001 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 53.7° 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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