The local space context of Mérida 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 | 20.967° N, 89.623° W | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,201,000 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Launch Site, Boca Chica Beach, Texas | 950 km NW (308°) | 25.996° N, 97.154° W | gcat-sites |
| Starbase, Boca Chica Beach, Texas | 950 km NW (308°) | 25.996° N, 97.154° W | gcat-sites |
| Venice Municipal Airport, Florida | 996 km NE (46°) | 27.072° N, 82.440° W | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starship | Flight 13 | 950 km NW (308°) | 25.997° N, 97.158° 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, 20,699 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 20.967° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,552 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 65.4° 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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