The local space context of Kayseri 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 | 38.732° N, 35.485° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,452,458 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 282 km SSE (150°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 342 km SSE (151°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 368 km N (356°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 416 km SSE (164°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 471 km SSE (151°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Rize-Artvin Havalimani | 530 km ENE (58°) | 41.169° N, 40.829° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 534 km S (179°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 548 km SSE (166°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 599 km NNW (349°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 606 km NW (323°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Tall' Afar Air Base | 669 km ESE (112°) | 36.280° N, 42.410° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iraq, western launch area | 721 km SE (135°) | 34.000° N, 41.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 738 km WNW (303°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 750 km SSE (148°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| Saddam Air Base | 752 km ESE (114°) | 35.760° N, 43.120° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 19 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 743 km NNW (346°) | 45.189° N, 33.187° E | signals |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| USSR test 2440491 | 981 km NNE (34°) | 45.880° N, 42.490° 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, 20,002 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 38.732° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,249 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 45.1° 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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