Novosibirsk (RU)

The local space context of Novosibirsk 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.

position55.023° N, 82.932° EGeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0
population1,612,833 inhabitantsGeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0

On the ground within 1000 km

Launch sites — 5 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
Aleysk missile site, Russia283 km S (183°)52.479° N, 82.699° Egcat-sites
Uzhur missile site, Russia466 km E (84°)55.207° N, 90.253° Egcat-sites
Omsk missile base, Russia591 km W (275°)55.160° N, 73.635° Egcat-sites
Krasnoyarsk missile site, Russia602 km ENE (73°)56.230° N, 92.290° Egcat-sites
Kansk, Krasnoyarsk region811 km ENE (75°)56.200° N, 95.700° Egcat-sites

Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
Semipalatinsk Test Site629 km SSW (211°)50.070° N, 78.430° Enuclear-tests

Nuclear detonations — 484 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
KVARTS296 km ENE (70°)55.835° N, 87.408° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2442691502 km WNW (283°)55.800° N, 75.100° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2441680530 km SW (228°)51.700° N, 77.200° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2446037574 km SSW (194°)50.000° N, 81.000° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2445992593 km SSW (201°)50.000° N, 80.000° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2439357607 km SW (216°)50.500° N, 77.860° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2445330610 km SSW (207°)50.066° N, 79.043° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2445659611 km SSW (207°)50.066° N, 79.036° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2447478611 km SSW (207°)50.078° N, 78.988° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2444062612 km SSW (207°)50.050° N, 79.060° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2447327614 km SSW (207°)50.045° N, 79.005° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2443906614 km SSW (208°)50.080° N, 78.880° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2447772614 km SSW (207°)50.039° N, 79.019° Enuclear-tests
USSR test 2441662614 km SSW (209°)50.100° N, 78.800° Enuclear-tests
RDS-1 (First Lightning)615 km SW (216°)50.440° N, 77.810° Enukes
… and 469 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.

What can pass overhead

Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit on 2026-10-18, 9,880 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 55.023° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 13,371 never reach this latitude.

space stationinclinationcan pass overhead
Bai Xiang85.0°yes
International Space Station (+3 docked records)51.6°no — its track stops at 51.6°
Kosmos-38255.9°yes
Tianhe41.5°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 from here

The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands 27.2° 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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