The local space context of Glasgow 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 | 55.865° N, 4.258° W | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 626,410 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Artillery Guided Weapons Range, South Uist, Hebrides | 249 km NW (312°) | 57.330° N, 7.330° W | gcat-sites |
| Aberporth Range | 415 km S (183°) | 52.138° N, 4.555° W | gcat-sites |
| Cornwall Airport Newquay | 605 km S (185°) | 50.441° N, 5.008° W | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area near Den Haag-Wassenaar | 700 km ESE (123°) | 52.130° N, 4.380° E | gcat-sites |
| Celtic Sea Spaceport Cornwall Drop Zones | 701 km SW (222°) | 51.000° N, 11.000° W | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Serooskerke, Walcheren, Holland | 704 km SE (130°) | 51.551° N, 3.590° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Stavorem, Friesland | 706 km ESE (114°) | 52.900° N, 5.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Marka Range, Lista, Norway | 745 km ENE (65°) | 58.200° N, 7.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Artillerie Schietkamp, t'Harde | 766 km ESE (116°) | 52.395° N, 5.923° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Beukenhorst mansion, Vught, Nederlanden | 784 km ESE (123°) | 51.624° N, 5.289° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area at Hellendoorn/Eelerberg | 794 km ESE (114°) | 52.410° N, 6.430° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Zwolle-Hellendoorn-Enschede | 796 km ESE (114°) | 52.400° N, 6.450° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Enschede, Nederlanden | 832 km ESE (115°) | 52.220° N, 6.890° E | gcat-sites |
| Vernon, Eure, France | 848 km SSE (150°) | 49.080° N, 1.480° E | gcat-sites |
| Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Deutschland | 857 km E (100°) | 53.870° N, 8.700° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 10 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| RFA One | Maiden Flight | 587 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, 9,805 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 55.865° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 13,446 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° | no — its track stops at 55.9° |
| 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 26.3° 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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