The local space context of Kraków 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 | 50.061° N, 19.937° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 816,614 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truppenubungsplatz Heidelager, Blizna, Krakow, Polska | 134 km E (83°) | 50.200° N, 21.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Heidekraut, Tucheler Heide, Deutschland (now Polska) | 415 km NNW (342°) | 53.600° N, 18.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Centrum Szkolenia Wojsk Ladowych Drawsko | 472 km NW (324°) | 53.433° N, 15.764° E | gcat-sites |
| Centralny Poligon Sil Powietrzynch | 548 km NNW (337°) | 54.550° N, 16.610° E | gcat-sites |
| Leba (Ustka), Slupsk, Pomerania, Polska | 549 km NNW (344°) | 54.780° N, 17.550° E | gcat-sites |
| Heersversuchsstelle Peenemunde, Usedom, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 620 km NW (320°) | 54.173° N, 13.801° E | gcat-sites |
| Belarus missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 669 km ENE (68°) | 52.000° N, 29.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Zingst Range, MMR-06 pad, DDR | 674 km NW (316°) | 54.200° N, 12.700° E | gcat-sites |
| ATACMS launch location, Ukraine | 753 km E (83°) | 50.450° N, 30.520° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area near Hachenburg/Montaburg | 863 km W (278°) | 50.500° N, 7.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Deutschland | 877 km WNW (303°) | 53.870° N, 8.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 890 km ESE (118°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Remscheid | 906 km WNW (283°) | 51.180° N, 7.200° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Burgsteinfurt | 910 km WNW (289°) | 52.100° N, 7.300° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Euskirchen, Deutschland | 933 km W (279°) | 50.650° N, 6.800° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 6 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, 15,743 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 50.061° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 7,508 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° | 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 32.6° 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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