The local space context of Shubrā al Khaymah 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 | 30.125° N, 31.250° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,240,289 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jabal Hamzah | 62 km W (270°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| Deversoir Air Base | 109 km ENE (72°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 335 km NE (51°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 372 km ENE (74°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 383 km ENE (58°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 393 km ENE (62°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 589 km NE (43°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 678 km NE (50°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| NAMFI target launch site: either Ftena, Pachia or Makra | 691 km SE (133°) | 25.800° N, 36.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 755 km NE (41°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 833 km NE (48°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 863 km ENE (67°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 868 km NE (39°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 891 km NE (36°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) | 896 km NW (315°) | 35.600° N, 24.200° E | 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, 20,269 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.125° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,982 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 54.9° 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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