The local space context of Giza 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 | 30.009° N, 31.209° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 4,367,343 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jabal Hamzah | 59 km WNW (283°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| Deversoir Air Base | 118 km ENE (67°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 346 km NE (50°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 380 km ENE (72°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 394 km ENE (57°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 403 km ENE (60°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 601 km NE (42°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| NAMFI target launch site: either Ftena, Pachia or Makra | 685 km SE (132°) | 25.800° N, 36.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 690 km NE (49°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 767 km NE (41°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 844 km NE (47°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 871 km ENE (66°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 881 km NE (39°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 903 km NW (315°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 904 km NE (35°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
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, 20,272 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.009° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,979 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 55.0° 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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