The local space context of Dublin 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 | 53.333° N, 6.249° W | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,024,027 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberporth Range | 175 km SE (139°) | 52.138° N, 4.555° W | gcat-sites |
| Cornwall Airport Newquay | 333 km SSE (165°) | 50.441° N, 5.008° W | gcat-sites |
| Celtic Sea Spaceport Cornwall Drop Zones | 415 km SW (233°) | 51.000° N, 11.000° W | gcat-sites |
| Royal Artillery Guided Weapons Range, South Uist, Hebrides | 450 km N (352°) | 57.330° N, 7.330° W | gcat-sites |
| Zone de lancement SNLE, Baie d'Audierne | 653 km SSE (165°) | 47.630° N, 4.050° W | gcat-sites |
| Zone de lancement SNLE, Golfe de Gascogne, Bretagne | 660 km SSE (169°) | 47.500° N, 4.500° W | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Serooskerke, Walcheren, Holland | 695 km ESE (103°) | 51.551° N, 3.590° E | gcat-sites |
| Vernon, Eure, France | 716 km SE (128°) | 49.080° N, 1.480° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area near Den Haag-Wassenaar | 727 km E (96°) | 52.130° N, 4.380° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Stavorem, Friesland | 778 km E (89°) | 52.900° N, 5.400° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Beukenhorst mansion, Vught, Nederlanden | 803 km E (99°) | 51.624° N, 5.289° E | gcat-sites |
| Artillerie Schietkamp, t'Harde | 823 km E (92°) | 52.395° N, 5.923° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area at Hellendoorn/Eelerberg | 856 km E (92°) | 52.410° N, 6.430° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Zwolle-Hellendoorn-Enschede | 858 km E (92°) | 52.400° N, 6.450° E | gcat-sites |
| Camp de Suippes, Marne, France | 881 km ESE (118°) | 49.150° N, 4.530° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 10 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| RFA One | Maiden Flight | 895 km NNE (19°) | 60.817° N, 0.763° W | launchlibrary |
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, 10,050 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 53.333° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 13,201 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 29.1° 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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