The local space context of Bursa 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 | 40.196° N, 29.060° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 3,101,833 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 230 km NNW (337°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 351 km NNE (27°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Nissaki-Karystos, Evvoia, Hellas | 468 km WSW (240°) | 38.010° N, 24.420° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 552 km ENE (66°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 587 km NE (42°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 630 km N (7°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 665 km SW (221°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Koroni, Peloponnisos, Hellas (beach launch area) | 726 km WSW (241°) | 36.770° N, 21.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 806 km ESE (118°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 860 km ESE (120°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 878 km SE (128°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 906 km SE (138°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 976 km ESE (123°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 982 km SE (133°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Rize-Artvin Havalimani | 997 km E (80°) | 41.169° N, 40.829° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 649 km NNE (30°) | 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, 19,971 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 40.196° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,280 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 43.5° 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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