The local space context of Jerusalem 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 | 31.769° N, 35.216° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 971,800 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 29 km W (267°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 51 km WNW (287°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 88 km SSW (194°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 118 km WNW (283°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 243 km N (8°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 286 km NNE (32°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Deversoir Air Base | 312 km WSW (242°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 398 km NNE (20°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 443 km NE (35°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 444 km ENE (72°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| Jabal Hamzah | 476 km WSW (249°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 513 km NNE (22°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 554 km NNE (17°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iraq, western launch area | 594 km ENE (64°) | 34.000° N, 41.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nikheb (Al Nuqaub) | 665 km E (86°) | 32.030° N, 42.260° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 9 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, 20,239 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 31.769° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,012 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 53.0° 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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