The local space context of Chelyabinsk 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 | 55.161° N, 61.429° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,202,371 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kartaly missile base | 257 km SSW (192°) | 52.900° N, 60.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Tyumen' missile base, Russia | 319 km NE (52°) | 56.850° N, 65.570° E | gcat-sites |
| Nizhniy Tagil missile base, Russia (Verhknaya Salda) | 333 km N (349°) | 58.096° N, 60.364° E | gcat-sites |
| Bershet missile base, Russia | 422 km NW (314°) | 57.692° N, 56.306° E | gcat-sites |
| Yasniy site, Dombarovskiy Air Base, Orensburgskaya Oblast', Rossiya | 507 km SSW (196°) | 50.750° N, 59.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Derzhavinsk missile site, Russia | 530 km SE (142°) | 51.300° N, 66.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Omsk missile base, Russia | 774 km E (85°) | 55.160° N, 73.635° E | gcat-sites |
| SP-5 Tactical missile site, Chelkar, Aktyubinsk | 823 km S (190°) | 47.850° N, 59.610° E | gcat-sites |
| Yurya missile site, Russia | 847 km NW (307°) | 59.170° N, 49.440° E | gcat-sites |
| Emba test range, Kazakshtan | 989 km SSW (207°) | 47.100° N, 55.420° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| USSR test 2435000 | 165 km E (95°) | 55.000° N, 64.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| TAVDA | 367 km NE (38°) | 57.690° N, 65.270° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2440473 | 411 km NW (308°) | 57.300° N, 56.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 416 km SSE (153°) | 51.800° N, 64.200° E | nuclear-tests |
| KAMA 2 | 422 km WSW (250°) | 53.700° N, 55.400° E | nuclear-tests |
| BUTAN 1+2 | 428 km WSW (238°) | 53.000° N, 56.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| BUTAN | 428 km WSW (238°) | 53.000° N, 56.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| KAMA 1 | 430 km WSW (252°) | 53.800° N, 55.200° E | nuclear-tests |
| GRIFON | 478 km WNW (303°) | 57.350° N, 54.770° E | nuclear-tests |
| MAGISTRAL | 500 km SW (231°) | 52.200° N, 55.700° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2435000 | 551 km SW (233°) | 52.000° N, 55.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| SAPFIR | 601 km SW (232°) | 51.600° N, 54.600° E | nuclear-tests |
| GRIFON | 603 km SW (227°) | 51.310° N, 55.030° E | nuclear-tests |
| SAPFIR | 606 km SW (232°) | 51.600° N, 54.500° E | nuclear-tests |
| GELIY | 680 km NNW (344°) | 61.000° N, 58.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| … and 23 more within 1000 km | |||
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, 9,852 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 55.161° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 13,399 never reach this latitude.
| space station | inclination | can pass overhead |
|---|---|---|
| Bai Xiang | 85.0° | yes |
| International Space Station (+3 docked records) | 51.6° | no — its track stops at 51.6° |
| 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 27.1° 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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