The local space context of İzmir 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 | 38.413° N, 27.138° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 2,938,292 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nissaki-Karystos, Evvoia, Hellas | 242 km W (260°) | 38.010° N, 24.420° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 407 km SW (221°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 414 km N (9°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| Koroni, Peloponnisos, Hellas (beach launch area) | 492 km WSW (250°) | 36.770° N, 21.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 605 km NNE (31°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 793 km ENE (57°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 845 km NE (41°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 858 km NNE (15°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 898 km E (100°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 908 km ESE (121°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jupiter sites, Gioia del Colle, Italy | 912 km WNW (290°) | 40.760° N, 16.930° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 927 km ESE (110°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 942 km ESE (103°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 947 km SE (137°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jabal Hamzah | 975 km SSE (160°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 1 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 904 km NNE (32°) | 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, 20,003 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 38.413° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,248 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 45.5° 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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