The local space context of Manhattan 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 | 40.783° N, 73.966° W | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,487,536 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninigret State Park (Charlestown NAS), Charlestown, Rhode Island | 203 km ENE (71°) | 41.360° N, 71.670° W | gcat-sites |
| USS Rushmore U. Michigan Cruise 1956 | 266 km ESE (108°) | 40.000° N, 71.000° W | gcat-sites |
| Vize Expedition 6, 1978 (SU017921) | 322 km SSW (196°) | 38.000° N, 75.000° W | gcat-sites |
| 1964 Croatan MRF Expedition | 322 km SSW (196°) | 38.000° N, 75.000° W | gcat-sites |
| 1965 Croatan MRF Expedition | 322 km SSW (196°) | 38.000° N, 75.000° W | gcat-sites |
| Naval Air Ordnance Test Station, Chincoteague, Virginia | 342 km SSW (203°) | 37.938° N, 75.463° W | gcat-sites |
| Wallops Island Main Base, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Chincoteague, Virginia | 342 km SSW (203°) | 37.938° N, 75.463° W | gcat-sites |
| Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland | 348 km SW (218°) | 38.286° N, 76.408° W | gcat-sites |
| USS Staten Island, 1953 Arctic expedition (Operation MUSHRAT) | 351 km ENE (57°) | 42.430° N, 70.370° W | gcat-sites |
| Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia | 353 km SSW (202°) | 37.830° N, 75.480° W | gcat-sites |
| Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia | 353 km SSW (202°) | 37.830° N, 75.480° W | gcat-sites |
| North Truro Air Force Station | 355 km ENE (66°) | 42.030° N, 70.050° W | gcat-sites |
| Terrier intercept test area off US Atlantic coast (RI/Mass?) | 378 km E (93°) | 40.500° N, 69.500° W | gcat-sites |
| Plattsburgh AFB, NY | 432 km N (5°) | 44.653° N, 73.469° W | gcat-sites |
| Plattsburgh AFB or other FB-111 base | 433 km N (5°) | 44.660° N, 73.460° W | gcat-sites |
| … and 6 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electron | 6x HawkEye 360 | 353 km SSW (202°) | 37.833° N, 75.488° W | launchlibrary |
| Neutron | Maiden Flight | 353 km SSW (202°) | 37.832° N, 75.490° W | launchlibrary |
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, 19,965 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 40.783° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,286 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 42.8° 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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