The local space context of Moscow 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 | 55.752° N, 37.618° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 10,381,222 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teykovo Missile Base, Russia | 204 km ENE (58°) | 56.700° N, 40.440° E | gcat-sites |
| Kostroma missile base, Russia | 313 km NE (46°) | 57.670° N, 41.380° E | gcat-sites |
| Volga region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 589 km S (188°) | 50.500° N, 36.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Tatishchevo ICBM base, Russia | 692 km SE (128°) | 51.670° N, 45.570° E | gcat-sites |
| Belarus missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 701 km WSW (237°) | 52.000° N, 29.000° E | gcat-sites |
| ATACMS launch location, Ukraine | 756 km SW (222°) | 50.450° N, 30.520° E | gcat-sites |
| PMZ Pavlograd test site, Ukraine | 764 km S (175°) | 48.900° N, 38.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Sverdlovsk air defence base | 774 km S (169°) | 48.900° N, 39.650° E | gcat-sites |
| Yurya missile site, Russia | 801 km ENE (57°) | 59.170° N, 49.440° E | gcat-sites |
| 1-y Gosudarstvenniy Ispitatelniy Kosmodrom MO RF | 811 km N (10°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, VKS section, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 811 km N (10°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 53-y Nauchno-Issledovatelskiy Ispitatelniy Poligon, | 811 km N (10°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| GIP-53, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 829 km NNE (12°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 829 km NNE (12°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 829 km NNE (12°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 3 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soyuz 2.1b | 16 x Rassvet-3 | 815 km N (11°) | 62.926° N, 40.578° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLOBUS | 311 km NE (42°) | 57.800° N, 41.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2441508 | 680 km SSW (193°) | 49.780° N, 35.450° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2445295 | 786 km E (91°) | 55.000° N, 50.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2445303 | 786 km E (91°) | 55.000° N, 50.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2444133 | 839 km S (177°) | 48.220° N, 38.300° E | nuclear-tests |
| GLOBUS | 849 km NE (36°) | 61.600° N, 47.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| RUBIN | 861 km NE (40°) | 61.331° N, 47.955° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2441513 | 871 km SE (134°) | 49.990° N, 46.440° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2437549 | 930 km SSE (148°) | 48.450° N, 44.300° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 933 km ESE (105°) | 52.800° N, 51.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 995 km SE (130°) | 49.500° N, 48.200° 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, 9,814 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 55.752° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 13,437 never reach this latitude.
| space station | inclination | can pass overhead |
|---|---|---|
| Bai Xiang | 85.0° | yes |
| International Space Station (+3 docked records) | 51.6° | no — its track stops at 51.6° |
| 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 26.5° 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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