The local space context of Çankaya 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 | 39.918° N, 32.863° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 792,189 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 306 km NE (39°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 376 km NNW (336°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 464 km NNE (11°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 477 km WNW (302°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 525 km SE (135°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 584 km SE (136°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 632 km SSE (146°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Rize-Artvin Havalimani | 687 km ENE (76°) | 41.169° N, 40.829° E | gcat-sites |
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 694 km NNW (342°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 709 km SSE (159°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 710 km SE (139°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 755 km SSE (151°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Nissaki-Karystos, Evvoia, Hellas | 760 km WSW (256°) | 38.010° N, 24.420° E | gcat-sites |
| Krasnodar Krai region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 873 km NNE (28°) | 46.700° N, 38.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 886 km S (173°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 8 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 587 km N (2°) | 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, 19,985 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 39.918° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,266 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 43.8° 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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