The local space context of Dallas 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
32.783° N, 96.807° W
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population
1,326,087 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 19 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
SpaceX McGregor Test Site
166 km SSW (202°)
31.400° N, 97.460° W
gcat-sites
Dyess AFB, Texas
288 km W (263°)
32.421° N, 99.855° W
gcat-sites
Barksdale AFB
290 km E (95°)
32.520° N, 93.730° W
gcat-sites
Altus AFB
309 km NW (313°)
34.663° N, 99.274° W
gcat-sites
Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas
490 km ENE (60°)
34.900° N, 92.150° W
gcat-sites
Matagorda Island, Texas
505 km S (177°)
28.250° N, 96.500° W
gcat-sites
Walker AFB, Roswell, New Mexico
722 km W (277°)
33.302° N, 104.531° W
gcat-sites
Texas Launch Site, Boca Chica Beach, Texas
755 km S (183°)
25.996° N, 97.154° W
gcat-sites
Starbase, Boca Chica Beach, Texas
755 km S (183°)
25.996° N, 97.154° W
gcat-sites
Blue Origin, West Texas Launch Site, Corn Ranch
764 km W (261°)
31.423° N, 104.757° W
gcat-sites
Port Bienville Launch Area, Gulf of Mexico
805 km ESE (111°)
29.998° N, 88.977° W
gcat-sites
Alamagordo Army Air Field
868 km W (273°)
32.850° N, 106.103° W
gcat-sites
AFMDC, Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman Air Force Base
868 km W (273°)
32.850° N, 106.103° W
gcat-sites
Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico
868 km W (273°)
32.850° N, 106.103° W
gcat-sites
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
912 km W (270°)
32.400° N, 106.530° 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
904 km W (279°)
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, 20,214 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 32.783° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,037 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
51.9° 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 Dallas 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.