The local space context of Izhevsk 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 | 56.852° N, 53.199° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 648,213 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bershet missile base, Russia | 209 km ENE (62°) | 57.692° N, 56.306° E | gcat-sites |
| Yurya missile site, Russia | 340 km NW (321°) | 59.170° N, 49.440° E | gcat-sites |
| Nizhniy Tagil missile base, Russia (Verhknaya Salda) | 450 km ENE (69°) | 58.096° N, 60.364° E | gcat-sites |
| Kartaly missile base | 645 km SE (130°) | 52.900° N, 60.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Kostroma missile base, Russia | 716 km WNW (282°) | 57.670° N, 41.380° E | gcat-sites |
| Tyumen' missile base, Russia | 751 km E (85°) | 56.850° N, 65.570° E | gcat-sites |
| Tatishchevo ICBM base, Russia | 759 km SW (224°) | 51.670° N, 45.570° E | gcat-sites |
| Teykovo Missile Base, Russia | 776 km W (274°) | 56.700° N, 40.440° E | gcat-sites |
| Yasniy site, Dombarovskiy Air Base, Orensburgskaya Oblast', Rossiya | 794 km SE (146°) | 50.750° N, 59.500° E | gcat-sites |
| GIP-53, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 957 km NW (321°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 957 km NW (321°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 957 km NW (321°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| 1-y Gosudarstvenniy Ispitatelniy Kosmodrom MO RF | 974 km NW (319°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, VKS section, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 974 km NW (319°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 53-y Nauchno-Issledovatelskiy Ispitatelniy Poligon, | 974 km NW (319°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 1 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soyuz 2.1b | 16 x Rassvet-3 | 972 km NW (319°) | 62.926° N, 40.578° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIFON | 110 km ENE (59°) | 57.350° N, 54.770° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2440473 | 176 km ENE (72°) | 57.300° N, 56.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2445295 | 287 km SW (225°) | 55.000° N, 50.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2445303 | 287 km SW (225°) | 55.000° N, 50.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| KAMA 1 | 362 km SSE (159°) | 53.800° N, 55.200° E | nuclear-tests |
| KAMA 2 | 377 km SSE (157°) | 53.700° N, 55.400° E | nuclear-tests |
| GELIY | 440 km NNE (18°) | 60.590° N, 55.700° E | nuclear-tests |
| GELIY | 461 km NNE (21°) | 60.674° N, 56.295° E | nuclear-tests |
| BUTAN 1+2 | 464 km SSE (156°) | 53.000° N, 56.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| BUTAN | 464 km SSE (156°) | 53.000° N, 56.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| GELIY | 470 km NNE (20°) | 60.781° N, 56.220° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 470 km SSW (197°) | 52.800° N, 51.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| TAIGA | 529 km NNE (19°) | 61.300° N, 56.500° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 534 km S (189°) | 52.100° N, 52.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| GELIY | 537 km NNE (29°) | 61.000° N, 58.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| … and 25 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, 9,747 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 56.852° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 13,504 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 25.3° 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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