The local space context of Shiraz 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 | 29.610° N, 52.531° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,249,942 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Shiraz Missile Base | 17 km SSW (194°) | 29.464° N, 52.488° E | gcat-sites |
| US Navy interceptor launch point, Aegis ships, Arabian Sea | 295 km S (190°) | 27.000° N, 52.000° E | gcat-sites |
| US Navy interceptor launch point, Aegis ships, Persian Gulf | 295 km S (190°) | 27.000° N, 52.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Unknown PrSM launch location, Persian Gulf | 327 km SSW (208°) | 27.000° N, 51.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Dasht-E-Kabir, Iran (Khatami Air Base?) | 355 km N (350°) | 32.750° N, 51.850° E | gcat-sites |
| Umm Qasr (Um Qassir) | 445 km W (277°) | 30.050° N, 47.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Basra region | 466 km WNW (283°) | 30.500° N, 47.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Al 'Amarah (Al-Fakkah) missile launch site | 570 km WNW (297°) | 31.830° N, 47.150° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iraq, near Al Amarah | 573 km WNW (296°) | 31.800° N, 47.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Qom test site, Markazi, Iran | 581 km NNW (345°) | 34.650° N, 50.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iran? | 591 km NNW (327°) | 34.000° N, 49.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Garmsar Missile Test Range | 602 km N (359°) | 35.026° N, 52.473° E | gcat-sites |
| Semnan missile launch site, Iran | 639 km NNE (11°) | 35.235° N, 53.921° E | gcat-sites |
| Bandar-e-Jask, Hormozgan | 679 km SE (129°) | 25.644° N, 57.774° E | gcat-sites |
| Bakhtaran/Kermanshah Air Base, Iran | 726 km NW (318°) | 34.357° N, 47.236° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 9 more within 1000 km | |||
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, 20,285 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 29.610° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,966 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 55.5° 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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