The local space context of Nizhniy Novgorod 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 | 56.329° N, 44.002° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,259,013 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kostroma missile base, Russia | 218 km NW (314°) | 57.670° N, 41.380° E | gcat-sites |
| Teykovo Missile Base, Russia | 222 km WNW (282°) | 56.700° N, 40.440° E | gcat-sites |
| Yurya missile site, Russia | 451 km NE (43°) | 59.170° N, 49.440° E | gcat-sites |
| Tatishchevo ICBM base, Russia | 528 km SSE (168°) | 51.670° N, 45.570° E | gcat-sites |
| 1-y Gosudarstvenniy Ispitatelniy Kosmodrom MO RF | 756 km NNW (346°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, VKS section, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 756 km NNW (346°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 53-y Nauchno-Issledovatelskiy Ispitatelniy Poligon, | 756 km NNW (346°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Bershet missile base, Russia | 759 km ENE (73°) | 57.692° N, 56.306° E | gcat-sites |
| GIP-53, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 759 km N (349°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 759 km N (349°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 759 km N (349°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Volga region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 816 km SW (221°) | 50.500° N, 36.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Tactical launch site, Urda, Kazakhstan | 874 km SSE (163°) | 48.760° N, 47.480° E | gcat-sites |
| Sverdlovsk air defence base | 876 km SSW (201°) | 48.900° N, 39.650° E | gcat-sites |
| GTsMP-4 MO RF, Znamensk (Kapustin Yar), Rossiya | 879 km S (171°) | 48.500° N, 45.800° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 4 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soyuz 2.1b | 16 x Rassvet-3 | 758 km NNW (347°) | 62.926° N, 40.578° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLOBUS | 240 km NW (314°) | 57.800° N, 41.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2445295 | 404 km ESE (109°) | 55.000° N, 50.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2445303 | 404 km ESE (109°) | 55.000° N, 50.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| RUBIN | 601 km NNE (21°) | 61.331° N, 47.955° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 602 km SE (128°) | 52.800° N, 51.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| GLOBUS | 612 km NNE (16°) | 61.600° N, 47.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| GRIFON | 664 km ENE (76°) | 57.350° N, 54.770° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 700 km SE (129°) | 52.100° N, 52.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2441513 | 723 km SSE (166°) | 49.990° N, 46.440° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2440473 | 737 km ENE (77°) | 57.300° N, 56.000° E | nuclear-tests |
| KAMA 1 | 765 km ESE (107°) | 53.800° N, 55.200° E | nuclear-tests |
| KAMA 2 | 782 km ESE (107°) | 53.700° N, 55.400° E | nuclear-tests |
| REGION | 809 km SSE (158°) | 49.500° N, 48.200° E | nuclear-tests |
| LIRA | 819 km SE (128°) | 51.374° N, 53.257° E | nuclear-tests |
| LIRA | 820 km SE (129°) | 51.356° N, 53.249° E | nuclear-tests |
| … and 52 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, 9,779 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 56.329° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 13,472 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° | no — its track stops at 55.9° |
| 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 25.8° 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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