The local space context of Erzurum 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 | 39.909° N, 41.277° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 767,848 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rize-Artvin Havalimani | 145 km NNW (345°) | 41.169° N, 40.829° E | gcat-sites |
| Unknown Iskander launch site, Armenia | 277 km E (83°) | 40.180° N, 44.510° E | gcat-sites |
| Derecik missile base | 411 km SE (139°) | 37.074° N, 44.304° E | gcat-sites |
| North Ossetia? Possible Iskander launch point | 412 km NNE (33°) | 43.000° N, 44.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Tall' Afar Air Base | 415 km SSE (166°) | 36.280° N, 42.410° E | gcat-sites |
| Ordzhonikidze missile base, Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz), S Ossetia | 446 km NE (38°) | 43.020° N, 44.650° E | gcat-sites |
| Tabriz Missile Base S | 475 km ESE (115°) | 37.978° N, 46.176° E | gcat-sites |
| Saddam Air Base | 489 km SSE (160°) | 35.760° N, 43.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 528 km SW (226°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 551 km SW (220°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 563 km WNW (297°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Kirkuk region, Iraq | 565 km SSE (150°) | 35.470° N, 44.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Missile base, Kurdistan province, Iran | 600 km SE (135°) | 36.000° N, 46.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Makhachkala missile base, Makhachkala, Dagestan | 605 km ENE (57°) | 42.700° N, 47.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 618 km SSW (209°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 16 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 885 km NW (314°) | 45.189° N, 33.187° E | signals |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| USSR test 2440491 | 671 km N (8°) | 45.880° N, 42.490° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 823 km NNE (20°) | 46.800° N, 45.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 942 km NE (34°) | 46.730° N, 48.197° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 944 km NNE (33°) | 46.843° N, 48.023° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 944 km NE (34°) | 46.743° N, 48.213° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 944 km NE (34°) | 46.748° N, 48.215° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 947 km NE (34°) | 46.754° N, 48.270° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 951 km NE (34°) | 46.790° N, 48.270° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 951 km NE (34°) | 46.780° N, 48.300° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 952 km NE (34°) | 46.790° N, 48.290° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 952 km NE (34°) | 46.796° N, 48.297° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 953 km NE (34°) | 46.837° N, 48.231° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 953 km NE (34°) | 46.817° N, 48.279° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 954 km NE (34°) | 46.820° N, 48.280° E | nuclear-tests |
| VEGA | 954 km NE (34°) | 46.816° N, 48.291° E | nuclear-tests |
| … and 22 more 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.
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit on 2026-10-18, 19,986 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 39.909° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,265 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 43.8° 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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