The local space context of Saint Petersburg 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 | 59.939° N, 30.314° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 5,351,935 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-y Gosudarstvenniy Ispitatelniy Kosmodrom MO RF | 633 km NE (54°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, VKS section, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 633 km NE (54°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 53-y Nauchno-Issledovatelskiy Ispitatelniy Poligon, | 633 km NE (54°) | 62.900° N, 40.500° E | gcat-sites |
| GIP-53, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 665 km NE (55°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 665 km NE (55°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| GNIIP, Plesetsk, Rossiya | 665 km NE (55°) | 63.000° N, 41.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Kostroma missile base, Russia | 684 km ESE (107°) | 57.670° N, 41.380° E | gcat-sites |
| Teykovo Missile Base, Russia | 691 km ESE (117°) | 56.700° N, 40.440° E | gcat-sites |
| GTsMP?, Nenoksa Test Range, Rossiya | 694 km NE (38°) | 64.630° N, 39.200° E | gcat-sites |
| White Sea Launch Area, Beloye More, Archangel'sk Oblast' | 731 km NNE (29°) | 65.500° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Kronogard (Jokkmokk/Vidsel), Norrbottens Lan, Sverige | 875 km NNW (327°) | 66.220° N, 19.780° E | gcat-sites |
| Belarus missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 886 km S (186°) | 52.000° N, 29.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leba (Ustka), Slupsk, Pomerania, Polska | 954 km WSW (239°) | 54.780° N, 17.550° E | gcat-sites |
| ESRANGE, Kiruna | 990 km NNW (337°) | 67.894° N, 21.107° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soyuz 2.1b | 16 x Rassvet-3 | 638 km NE (54°) | 62.926° N, 40.578° E | launchlibrary |
| Themis Demonstrator | T1H-1 | 987 km NNW (337°) | 67.877° N, 21.165° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLOBUS | 663 km ESE (106°) | 57.800° N, 41.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| AGAT | 851 km NNE (34°) | 65.965° N, 40.754° E | nuclear-tests |
| DNEPR-1 | 876 km N (9°) | 67.700° N, 33.400° E | nuclear-tests |
| DNEPR-2 | 886 km N (9°) | 67.774° N, 33.688° E | nuclear-tests |
| GLOBUS | 927 km ENE (71°) | 61.600° N, 47.100° E | nuclear-tests |
| RUBIN | 971 km ENE (73°) | 61.331° N, 47.955° 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, 9,646 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 59.939° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 13,605 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 22.0° 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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