The local space context of Eskişehir 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 | 39.777° N, 30.521° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 921,630 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 335 km NW (321°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 361 km N (6°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 466 km NE (56°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 551 km NNE (30°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Nissaki-Karystos, Evvoia, Hellas | 563 km WSW (252°) | 38.010° N, 24.420° E | gcat-sites |
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 672 km N (357°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 675 km ESE (120°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 724 km SW (232°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 729 km ESE (123°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 752 km SE (132°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 791 km SE (144°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Koroni, Peloponnisos, Hellas (beach launch area) | 819 km WSW (249°) | 36.770° N, 21.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 847 km SE (126°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 861 km SE (137°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Rize-Artvin Havalimani | 885 km ENE (77°) | 41.169° N, 40.829° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 4 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 640 km NNE (19°) | 45.189° N, 33.187° E | signals |
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, 19,987 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 39.777° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,264 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 44.0° 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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