The local space context of Bağcılar 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 | 41.039° N, 28.857° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 740,069 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 138 km NNW (327°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 281 km NE (38°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Nissaki-Karystos, Evvoia, Hellas | 508 km SW (230°) | 38.010° N, 24.420° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 535 km NE (50°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 538 km ENE (76°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 540 km N (10°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 728 km SW (215°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Koroni, Peloponnisos, Hellas (beach launch area) | 763 km SW (234°) | 36.770° N, 21.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 869 km ESE (123°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 924 km SE (124°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 951 km SE (131°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Krasnodar Krai region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 983 km NE (47°) | 46.700° N, 38.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 989 km SE (141°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 580 km NE (36°) | 45.189° N, 33.187° E | signals |
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, 19,957 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 41.039° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,294 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 42.6° 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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