The local space context of Cairo 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 | 30.063° N, 31.250° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 9,606,916 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jabal Hamzah | 62 km W (277°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| Deversoir Air Base | 112 km ENE (69°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 339 km NE (50°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 374 km ENE (73°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 387 km ENE (57°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 397 km ENE (61°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 594 km NE (43°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 683 km NE (50°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| NAMFI target launch site: either Ftena, Pachia or Makra | 686 km SE (132°) | 25.800° N, 36.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 760 km NE (41°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 837 km NE (47°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 865 km ENE (66°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 874 km NE (39°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 897 km NE (35°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 901 km NW (315°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
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, 20,270 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.063° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,981 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 55.0° 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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