Erzurum (TR)

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.

position39.909° N, 41.277° EGeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0
population767,848 inhabitantsGeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0

On the ground within 1000 km

Launch sites — 31 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
Rize-Artvin Havalimani145 km NNW (345°)41.169° N, 40.829° Egcat-sites
Unknown Iskander launch site, Armenia277 km E (83°)40.180° N, 44.510° Egcat-sites
Derecik missile base411 km SE (139°)37.074° N, 44.304° Egcat-sites
North Ossetia? Possible Iskander launch point412 km NNE (33°)43.000° N, 44.000° Egcat-sites
Tall' Afar Air Base415 km SSE (166°)36.280° N, 42.410° Egcat-sites
Ordzhonikidze missile base, Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz), S Ossetia446 km NE (38°)43.020° N, 44.650° Egcat-sites
Tabriz Missile Base S475 km ESE (115°)37.978° N, 46.176° Egcat-sites
Saddam Air Base489 km SSE (160°)35.760° N, 43.120° Egcat-sites
Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir)528 km SW (226°)36.519° N, 37.039° Egcat-sites
Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir)551 km SW (220°)36.034° N, 37.351° Egcat-sites
Sinop missile test site, Turkey563 km WNW (297°)42.031° N, 35.190° Egcat-sites
Kirkuk region, Iraq565 km SSE (150°)35.470° N, 44.400° Egcat-sites
Missile base, Kurdistan province, Iran600 km SE (135°)36.000° N, 46.000° Egcat-sites
Makhachkala missile base, Makhachkala, Dagestan605 km ENE (57°)42.700° N, 47.500° Egcat-sites
Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria618 km SSW (209°)35.000° N, 38.000° Egcat-sites
… and 16 more within 1000 km

Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
Evpatoria RT-70885 km NW (314°)45.189° N, 33.187° Esignals

Nuclear detonations — 37 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
USSR test 2440491671 km N (8°)45.880° N, 42.490° Enuclear-tests
REGION823 km NNE (20°)46.800° N, 45.000° Enuclear-tests
VEGA942 km NE (34°)46.730° N, 48.197° Enuclear-tests
VEGA944 km NNE (33°)46.843° N, 48.023° Enuclear-tests
VEGA944 km NE (34°)46.743° N, 48.213° Enuclear-tests
VEGA944 km NE (34°)46.748° N, 48.215° Enuclear-tests
VEGA947 km NE (34°)46.754° N, 48.270° Enuclear-tests
VEGA951 km NE (34°)46.790° N, 48.270° Enuclear-tests
VEGA951 km NE (34°)46.780° N, 48.300° Enuclear-tests
VEGA952 km NE (34°)46.790° N, 48.290° Enuclear-tests
VEGA952 km NE (34°)46.796° N, 48.297° Enuclear-tests
VEGA953 km NE (34°)46.837° N, 48.231° Enuclear-tests
VEGA953 km NE (34°)46.817° N, 48.279° Enuclear-tests
VEGA954 km NE (34°)46.820° N, 48.280° Enuclear-tests
VEGA954 km NE (34°)46.816° N, 48.291° Enuclear-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.

What can pass overhead

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 stationinclinationcan pass overhead
Bai Xiang85.0°yes
International Space Station (+3 docked records)51.6°yes
Kosmos-38255.9°yes
Tianhe41.5°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 from here

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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