The local space context of Mosul 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 | 36.335° N, 43.119° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,683,000 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tall' Afar Air Base | 64 km W (265°) | 36.280° N, 42.410° E | gcat-sites |
| Saddam Air Base | 64 km S (180°) | 35.760° N, 43.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Derecik missile base | 134 km NE (52°) | 37.074° N, 44.304° E | gcat-sites |
| Kirkuk region, Iraq | 150 km SE (129°) | 35.470° N, 44.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Missile base, Kurdistan province, Iran | 261 km E (97°) | 36.000° N, 46.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iraq, western launch area | 323 km SW (217°) | 34.000° N, 41.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Kilometer 160, Ar Ramadi, Al Ambar, Iraq | 326 km S (180°) | 33.400° N, 43.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Jebel Himreen, Iraq | 327 km SE (142°) | 34.000° N, 45.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Tabriz Missile Base S | 327 km NE (55°) | 37.978° N, 46.176° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iraq | 379 km SSE (167°) | 33.000° N, 44.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Bakhtaran/Kermanshah Air Base, Iran | 433 km ESE (119°) | 34.357° N, 47.236° E | gcat-sites |
| Unknown Iskander launch site, Armenia | 444 km NNE (15°) | 40.180° N, 44.510° E | gcat-sites |
| Al-Anbar base, Al-Anbar province, Iraq | 477 km S (189°) | 32.100° N, 42.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nikheb (Al Nuqaub) | 485 km S (190°) | 32.030° N, 42.260° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 486 km WSW (254°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 25 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, 20,037 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 36.335° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,214 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 47.8° 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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