The local space context of Chihuahua 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
28.635° N, 106.089° W
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population
925,762 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 19 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Blue Origin, West Texas Launch Site, Corn Ranch
335 km NNE (22°)
31.423° N, 104.757° W
gcat-sites
Hueco Range, Fort Bliss, Texas
356 km N (351°)
31.800° N, 106.650° W
gcat-sites
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
421 km N (354°)
32.400° N, 106.530° W
gcat-sites
Alamagordo Army Air Field
469 km N (360°)
32.850° N, 106.103° W
gcat-sites
AFMDC, Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman Air Force Base
469 km N (360°)
32.850° N, 106.103° W
gcat-sites
Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico
469 km N (360°)
32.850° N, 106.103° W
gcat-sites
Spaceport America, New Mexico (9MN9)
491 km N (350°)
32.990° N, 106.970° W
gcat-sites
SouthWest Regional Spaceport (Spaceport America) New Mexico
491 km N (350°)
32.990° N, 106.970° W
gcat-sites
Walker AFB, Roswell, New Mexico
540 km NNE (16°)
33.302° N, 104.531° W
gcat-sites
Datil, New Mexico
630 km NNW (346°)
34.122° N, 107.741° W
gcat-sites
Dyess AFB, Texas
730 km NE (53°)
32.421° N, 99.855° W
gcat-sites
Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, Mexico
760 km S (174°)
21.830° N, 105.370° W
gcat-sites
Fort Wingate Depot Activity, New Mexico
794 km NNW (343°)
35.450° N, 108.600° W
gcat-sites
SpaceX McGregor Test Site
886 km ENE (68°)
31.400° N, 97.460° W
gcat-sites
Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona
916 km WNW (303°)
32.870° N, 114.320° W
gcat-sites
… and 4 more within 1000 km
Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Trinity Site
562 km N (356°)
33.680° N, 106.470° W
nuclear-tests
Announced launches (their pads) — 1 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.
What can pass overhead
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit
on 2026-10-18, 20,340 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 28.635° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
2,911 never reach this latitude.
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 from here
The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands
56.6° 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.
What this page does not know
Tonight's sky and pass times. They depend on the hour, so a static page would print a
stale number. Open the live scene in a browser: /sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
then stand at Chihuahua in Stargazing — it computes which satellites are visible now, from this
registry, in your browser.
Anything not catalogued. A site absent from the source catalogues is absent here; an
empty list means «not in the registry», not «nothing there».
Precision beyond the sources. Positions carry the precision their catalogue published.