The local space context of Odesa 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 | 46.486° N, 30.744° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,010,537 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 90 km SW (215°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| Chernoye More (Black Sea) submarine test launch area | 376 km SE (136°) | 44.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ushakov Expedition 6, 1978 | 388 km S (177°) | 43.000° N, 31.000° E | gcat-sites |
| ATACMS launch location, Ukraine | 441 km N (358°) | 50.450° N, 30.520° E | gcat-sites |
| Akhtopol Meteorological Rocket Station | 537 km SSW (205°) | 42.084° N, 27.952° E | gcat-sites |
| Krasnodar Krai region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 578 km E (85°) | 46.700° N, 38.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Sinop missile test site, Turkey | 609 km SE (143°) | 42.031° N, 35.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Volga region missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 615 km NE (41°) | 50.500° N, 36.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Belarus missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 626 km N (349°) | 52.000° N, 29.000° E | gcat-sites |
| PMZ Pavlograd test site, Ukraine | 639 km ENE (62°) | 48.900° N, 38.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Sverdlovsk air defence base | 718 km ENE (65°) | 48.900° N, 39.650° E | gcat-sites |
| Truppenubungsplatz Heidelager, Blizna, Krakow, Polska | 779 km NW (305°) | 50.200° N, 21.800° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria RT-70 | 238 km SE (126°) | 45.189° N, 33.187° E | signals |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| USSR test 2441508 | 506 km NE (42°) | 49.780° N, 35.450° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2444133 | 601 km ENE (69°) | 48.220° N, 38.300° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2440491 | 906 km E (90°) | 45.880° N, 42.490° 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, 16,104 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 46.486° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 7,147 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° | 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 36.5° 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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