The local space context of Rasht 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 | 37.276° N, 49.589° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 594,590 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tabriz Missile Base S | 310 km WNW (286°) | 37.978° N, 46.176° E | gcat-sites |
| Qom test site, Markazi, Iran | 315 km SSE (158°) | 34.650° N, 50.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Missile base, Kurdistan province, Iran | 350 km WSW (247°) | 36.000° N, 46.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Garmsar Missile Test Range | 360 km SE (133°) | 35.026° N, 52.473° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iran? | 368 km S (188°) | 34.000° N, 49.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Bakhtaran/Kermanshah Air Base, Iran | 388 km SW (214°) | 34.357° N, 47.236° E | gcat-sites |
| Semnan missile launch site, Iran | 450 km ESE (119°) | 35.235° N, 53.921° E | gcat-sites |
| Derecik missile base | 469 km W (269°) | 37.074° N, 44.304° E | gcat-sites |
| Kirkuk region, Iraq | 506 km WSW (248°) | 35.470° N, 44.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Unknown mobile launch sites in Semnan province, poss. near Shahrud | 524 km E (101°) | 36.230° N, 55.330° E | gcat-sites |
| Imam Reza Space Ctr, Damghan (Shahroud), Iran (Dasht-E-Kabir?) | 524 km E (101°) | 36.230° N, 55.330° E | gcat-sites |
| Jebel Himreen, Iraq | 532 km SW (228°) | 34.000° N, 45.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Dasht-E-Kabir, Iran (Khatami Air Base?) | 544 km SSE (157°) | 32.750° N, 51.850° E | gcat-sites |
| Unknown Iskander launch site, Armenia | 546 km NW (308°) | 40.180° N, 44.510° E | gcat-sites |
| Saddam Air Base | 602 km WSW (256°) | 35.760° N, 43.120° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 17 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| USSR test 2440562 | 845 km NNE (29°) | 43.790° N, 54.750° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2440944 | 850 km NNE (30°) | 43.810° N, 54.820° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2440933 | 854 km NNE (29°) | 43.870° N, 54.780° 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, 20,022 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 37.276° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,229 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 46.8° 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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