The local space context of Sharjah 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 | 25.334° N, 55.412° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,800,000 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bandar-e-Jask, Hormozgan | 240 km E (81°) | 25.644° N, 57.774° E | gcat-sites |
| US Navy interceptor launch point, Aegis ships, Arabian Sea | 388 km WNW (299°) | 27.000° N, 52.000° E | gcat-sites |
| US Navy interceptor launch point, Aegis ships, Persian Gulf | 388 km WNW (299°) | 27.000° N, 52.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Unknown PrSM launch location, Persian Gulf | 478 km WNW (294°) | 27.000° N, 51.000° E | gcat-sites |
| South Shiraz Missile Base | 542 km NNW (329°) | 29.464° N, 52.488° E | gcat-sites |
| Chabahar Space Center | 590 km E (91°) | 25.141° N, 61.272° E | gcat-sites |
| Etlaq Spaceport | 675 km SSE (159°) | 19.640° N, 57.678° E | gcat-sites |
| Dasht-E-Kabir, Iran (Khatami Air Base?) | 894 km NNW (338°) | 32.750° N, 51.850° E | gcat-sites |
| Umm Qasr (Um Qassir) | 902 km NW (307°) | 30.050° N, 47.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Basra region | 943 km NW (309°) | 30.500° N, 47.800° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAKISTAN test 2450964 | 901 km ENE (65°) | 28.490° N, 63.780° 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, 20,561 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 25.334° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,690 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 60.4° 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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