The local space context of Sulţānah 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 | 24.493° N, 39.586° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 946,697 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAMFI target launch site: either Ftena, Pachia or Makra | 361 km WNW (294°) | 25.800° N, 36.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Sulayil missile base, Saudi Arabia | 745 km ESE (123°) | 20.719° N, 45.584° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launcher, S of An Najaf | 849 km NNE (31°) | 31.000° N, 44.100° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 853 km NNW (329°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nikheb (Al Nuqaub) | 878 km NNE (17°) | 32.030° N, 42.260° E | gcat-sites |
| Al-Anbar base, Al-Anbar province, Iraq | 887 km NNE (17°) | 32.100° N, 42.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 928 km NNW (331°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 938 km N (1°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| Various locations in Yemen | 941 km SSE (152°) | 16.969° N, 43.731° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 952 km NNW (331°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Deversoir Air Base | 972 km NW (314°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Sa'dah (Saa'da), Yemen and Dammaj Valley area | 977 km SSE (152°) | 16.668° N, 43.850° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 998 km NNW (328°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° 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, 20,602 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 24.493° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,649 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 61.3° 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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