The local space context of Brooklyn 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 | 40.650° N, 73.950° W | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 2,736,074 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninigret State Park (Charlestown NAS), Charlestown, Rhode Island | 207 km ENE (67°) | 41.360° N, 71.670° W | gcat-sites |
| USS Rushmore U. Michigan Cruise 1956 | 260 km ESE (105°) | 40.000° N, 71.000° W | gcat-sites |
| Vize Expedition 6, 1978 (SU017921) | 308 km SSW (197°) | 38.000° N, 75.000° W | gcat-sites |
| 1964 Croatan MRF Expedition | 308 km SSW (197°) | 38.000° N, 75.000° W | gcat-sites |
| 1965 Croatan MRF Expedition | 308 km SSW (197°) | 38.000° N, 75.000° W | gcat-sites |
| Naval Air Ordnance Test Station, Chincoteague, Virginia | 328 km SSW (204°) | 37.938° N, 75.463° W | gcat-sites |
| Wallops Island Main Base, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Chincoteague, Virginia | 328 km SSW (204°) | 37.938° N, 75.463° W | gcat-sites |
| Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland | 337 km SW (220°) | 38.286° N, 76.408° W | gcat-sites |
| Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia | 340 km SSW (203°) | 37.830° N, 75.480° W | gcat-sites |
| Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia | 340 km SSW (203°) | 37.830° N, 75.480° W | gcat-sites |
| USS Staten Island, 1953 Arctic expedition (Operation MUSHRAT) | 358 km NE (55°) | 42.430° N, 70.370° W | gcat-sites |
| North Truro Air Force Station | 360 km ENE (63°) | 42.030° N, 70.050° W | gcat-sites |
| Terrier intercept test area off US Atlantic coast (RI/Mass?) | 376 km E (91°) | 40.500° N, 69.500° W | gcat-sites |
| Plattsburgh AFB, NY | 447 km N (5°) | 44.653° N, 73.469° W | gcat-sites |
| Plattsburgh AFB or other FB-111 base | 448 km N (5°) | 44.660° N, 73.460° W | gcat-sites |
| … and 6 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electron | 6x HawkEye 360 | 340 km SSW (203°) | 37.833° N, 75.488° W | launchlibrary |
| Neutron | Maiden Flight | 340 km SSW (203°) | 37.832° N, 75.490° W | launchlibrary |
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, 19,967 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 40.650° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,284 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 43.0° 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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