The local space context of Dera Ismail Khan 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 | 31.831° N, 70.902° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 763,195 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tilla Firing Range, Malute, Jhelum region, Punjab, Pakistan | 284 km NE (52°) | 33.400° N, 73.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Sonmiani Range, Sonmiani Beach, Baluchistan, Pakistan | 841 km SSW (210°) | 25.200° N, 66.750° E | gcat-sites |
| Kattakurgan missile base, Samarkand region | 988 km NNW (337°) | 39.900° N, 66.300° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pokhran | 532 km S (171°) | 27.100° N, 71.750° E | nuclear-tests |
| Ras Koh (Chagai) | 666 km WSW (241°) | 28.760° N, 64.950° E | nuclear-tests |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smiling Buddha | 534 km S (171°) | 27.080° N, 71.720° E | nukes |
| SHAKTI 1-3 | 535 km S (171°) | 27.070° N, 71.700° E | nuclear-tests |
| SHAKTI4 | 535 km S (171°) | 27.070° N, 71.700° E | nuclear-tests |
| Chagai-I | 662 km WSW (241°) | 28.830° N, 64.940° E | nukes |
| PAKISTAN test 2450964 | 779 km WSW (243°) | 28.490° N, 63.780° E | nuclear-tests |
| TELKEM-2 | 868 km NE (47°) | 37.000° N, 78.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2439998 | 944 km NNW (328°) | 38.890° N, 65.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2439399 | 968 km NW (325°) | 38.800° N, 64.500° 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, 20,239 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 31.831° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,012 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 52.9° 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.
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