The local space context of Kabul 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 | 34.528° N, 69.172° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 4,434,550 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tilla Firing Range, Malute, Jhelum region, Punjab, Pakistan | 401 km ESE (107°) | 33.400° N, 73.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Kattakurgan missile base, Samarkand region | 649 km NNW (338°) | 39.900° N, 66.300° E | gcat-sites |
| 14th Tactical Air Base, Mashhad | 884 km WNW (285°) | 36.234° N, 59.640° E | gcat-sites |
| Sary Ozek missile base, Kazakhstan | 984 km N (353°) | 43.300° N, 67.650° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ras Koh (Chagai) | 756 km SSW (213°) | 28.760° N, 64.950° E | nuclear-tests |
| Pokhran | 862 km SSE (163°) | 27.100° N, 71.750° E | nuclear-tests |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| USSR test 2439998 | 606 km NW (324°) | 38.890° N, 65.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2439399 | 632 km NW (320°) | 38.800° N, 64.500° E | nuclear-tests |
| CRATER | 720 km WNW (298°) | 37.400° N, 62.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| Chagai-I | 749 km SSW (213°) | 28.830° N, 64.940° E | nukes |
| TELKEM-2 | 842 km ENE (68°) | 37.000° N, 78.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| PAKISTAN test 2450964 | 844 km SW (219°) | 28.490° N, 63.780° E | nuclear-tests |
| Smiling Buddha | 863 km SSE (163°) | 27.080° N, 71.720° E | nukes |
| SHAKTI 1-3 | 864 km SSE (163°) | 27.070° N, 71.700° E | nuclear-tests |
| SHAKTI4 | 864 km SSE (163°) | 27.070° N, 71.700° E | nuclear-tests |
| MERIDIAN | 922 km N (351°) | 42.700° N, 67.400° E | nuclear-tests |
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, 20,187 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 34.528° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,064 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 49.9° 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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