The local space context of Bucharest 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 | 44.432° N, 26.106° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,877,155 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 301 km SSE (150°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 348 km ENE (62°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 424 km ESE (110°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 631 km E (92°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Truppenubungsplatz Heidelager, Blizna, Krakow, Polska | 719 km NNW (335°) | 50.200° N, 21.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Nissaki-Karystos, Evvoia, Hellas | 728 km SSW (192°) | 38.010° N, 24.420° E | gcat-sites |
| ATACMS launch location, Ukraine | 747 km NNE (25°) | 50.450° N, 30.520° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 782 km ESE (107°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Jupiter sites, Gioia del Colle, Italy | 854 km WSW (245°) | 40.760° N, 16.930° E | gcat-sites |
| Belarus missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 868 km NNE (13°) | 52.000° N, 29.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Koroni, Peloponnisos, Hellas (beach launch area) | 921 km SSW (204°) | 36.770° N, 21.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Krasnodar Krai region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 981 km ENE (71°) | 46.700° N, 38.300° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 995 km S (190°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 565 km E (79°) | 45.189° N, 33.187° E | signals |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| USSR test 2441508 | 923 km NE (47°) | 49.780° N, 35.450° E | nuclear-tests |
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, 16,268 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 44.432° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 6,983 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° | no — its track stops at 41.5° |
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 38.8° 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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