The local space context of Rosario 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 | 32.947° S, 60.639° W | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 948,312 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villa Reynolds Air Base, Mercedes, San Luis province, Argentina | 449 km WSW (258°) | 33.730° S, 65.380° W | gcat-sites |
| Poligono de Salinas Grandes, Serrezuela, Cordoba | 525 km WNW (298°) | 30.650° S, 65.500° W | gcat-sites |
| CELPA Atlantica, Mar Chiquita, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 609 km SSE (152°) | 37.750° S, 57.420° W | gcat-sites |
| Centro de Ensayo y Lanzamiento de Proyectiles Autopropulsados | 622 km WNW (299°) | 30.130° S, 66.317° W | gcat-sites |
| Las Palmas, Chaco, Argentina | 672 km NNE (16°) | 27.130° S, 58.750° W | gcat-sites |
| Cassino, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil | 798 km E (86°) | 32.193° S, 52.169° W | gcat-sites |
| Puente del Inca, Mendoza, Argentina | 866 km W (268°) | 32.820° S, 69.910° W | gcat-sites |
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, 20,211 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 32.947° S, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,040 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 northern sky and stands 51.7° above the horizon due north — 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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