The local space context of Chisinau 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 | 47.009° N, 28.859° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 635,994 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 163 km SE (144°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| ATACMS launch location, Ukraine | 402 km NNE (17°) | 50.450° N, 30.520° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 476 km SSE (159°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 522 km SE (128°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 552 km S (188°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| Belarus missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 555 km N (1°) | 52.000° N, 29.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Truppenubungsplatz Heidelager, Blizna, Krakow, Polska | 628 km NW (307°) | 50.200° N, 21.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Volga region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 681 km NE (52°) | 50.500° N, 36.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Krasnodar Krai region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 718 km E (89°) | 46.700° N, 38.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 747 km SE (136°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| PMZ Pavlograd test site, Ukraine | 747 km ENE (70°) | 48.900° N, 38.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Sverdlovsk air defence base | 830 km ENE (71°) | 48.900° N, 39.650° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 390 km ESE (120°) | 45.189° N, 33.187° E | signals |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| USSR test 2441508 | 576 km NE (55°) | 49.780° N, 35.450° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2444133 | 720 km ENE (76°) | 48.220° N, 38.300° E | nuclear-tests |
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, 16,081 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 47.009° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 7,170 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° | 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 36.0° 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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