The local space context of Monterrey 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 | 25.684° N, 100.317° W | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,135,512 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Launch Site, Boca Chica Beach, Texas | 318 km E (83°) | 25.996° N, 97.154° W | gcat-sites |
| Starbase, Boca Chica Beach, Texas | 318 km E (83°) | 25.996° N, 97.154° W | gcat-sites |
| Matagorda Island, Texas | 474 km NE (52°) | 28.250° N, 96.500° W | gcat-sites |
| Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, Mexico | 669 km SW (231°) | 21.830° N, 105.370° W | gcat-sites |
| SpaceX McGregor Test Site | 694 km NNE (23°) | 31.400° N, 97.460° W | gcat-sites |
| Dyess AFB, Texas | 750 km N (3°) | 32.421° N, 99.855° W | gcat-sites |
| Blue Origin, West Texas Launch Site, Corn Ranch | 771 km NNW (327°) | 31.423° N, 104.757° W | gcat-sites |
| Hueco Range, Fort Bliss, Texas | 918 km NW (319°) | 31.800° N, 106.650° W | gcat-sites |
| Walker AFB, Roswell, New Mexico | 940 km NNW (335°) | 33.302° N, 104.531° W | gcat-sites |
| White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico | 960 km NW (323°) | 32.400° N, 106.530° W | gcat-sites |
| Alamagordo Army Air Field | 974 km NW (326°) | 32.850° N, 106.103° W | gcat-sites |
| AFMDC, Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman Air Force Base | 974 km NW (326°) | 32.850° N, 106.103° W | gcat-sites |
| Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico | 974 km NW (326°) | 32.850° N, 106.103° W | gcat-sites |
| Barksdale AFB | 993 km NE (39°) | 32.520° N, 93.730° W | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starship | Flight 13 | 318 km E (83°) | 25.997° N, 97.158° W | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| GNOME | 819 km NNW (334°) | 32.250° N, 104.140° W | 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, 20,548 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 25.684° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,703 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 60.0° 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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