The local space context of Basrah 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 | 30.509° N, 47.780° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,326,564 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile launchers in Basra region | 2 km ESE (117°) | 30.500° N, 47.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Umm Qasr (Um Qassir) | 54 km SSE (162°) | 30.050° N, 47.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iraq, near Al Amarah | 158 km NNW (336°) | 31.800° N, 47.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Al 'Amarah (Al-Fakkah) missile launch site | 159 km NNW (338°) | 31.830° N, 47.150° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launcher, S of An Najaf | 356 km W (280°) | 31.000° N, 44.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iran? | 405 km NNE (16°) | 34.000° N, 49.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Bakhtaran/Kermanshah Air Base, Iran | 431 km N (353°) | 34.357° N, 47.236° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iraq | 452 km NW (309°) | 33.000° N, 44.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jebel Himreen, Iraq | 453 km NNW (330°) | 34.000° N, 45.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Dasht-E-Kabir, Iran (Khatami Air Base?) | 459 km NE (56°) | 32.750° N, 51.850° E | gcat-sites |
| South Shiraz Missile Base | 468 km ESE (103°) | 29.464° N, 52.488° E | gcat-sites |
| Unknown PrSM launch location, Persian Gulf | 501 km SE (140°) | 27.000° N, 51.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Qom test site, Markazi, Iran | 545 km NNE (32°) | 34.650° N, 50.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Kilometer 160, Ar Ramadi, Al Ambar, Iraq | 546 km NW (307°) | 33.400° N, 43.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Al-Anbar base, Al-Anbar province, Iraq | 550 km WNW (290°) | 32.100° N, 42.300° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 15 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, 20,262 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.509° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,989 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 54.4° 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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