Tbilisi (GE)

The local space context of Tbilisi 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.

position41.691° N, 44.834° EGeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0
population1,049,498 inhabitantsGeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0

On the ground within 1000 km

Launch sites — 33 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
Ordzhonikidze missile base, Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz), S Ossetia149 km N (354°)43.020° N, 44.650° Egcat-sites
North Ossetia? Possible Iskander launch point161 km NNW (335°)43.000° N, 44.000° Egcat-sites
Unknown Iskander launch site, Armenia170 km S (189°)40.180° N, 44.510° Egcat-sites
Makhachkala missile base, Makhachkala, Dagestan247 km ENE (62°)42.700° N, 47.500° Egcat-sites
Rize-Artvin Havalimani339 km W (261°)41.169° N, 40.829° Egcat-sites
Tabriz Missile Base S428 km SSE (164°)37.978° N, 46.176° Egcat-sites
Derecik missile base515 km S (185°)37.074° N, 44.304° Egcat-sites
Tall' Afar Air Base637 km SSW (200°)36.280° N, 42.410° Egcat-sites
Missile base, Kurdistan province, Iran641 km S (171°)36.000° N, 46.000° Egcat-sites
Saddam Air Base676 km SSW (193°)35.760° N, 43.120° Egcat-sites
Ashuluk, Rossiya686 km NNE (21°)47.422° N, 48.034° Egcat-sites
Kirkuk region, Iraq693 km S (183°)35.470° N, 44.400° Egcat-sites
Vladimirovka Poligon743 km N (8°)48.300° N, 46.200° Egcat-sites
GTsMP-4 MO RF, Znamensk (Kapustin Yar), Rossiya761 km N (5°)48.500° N, 45.800° Egcat-sites
GTsP-4, Kapustin Yar, Volgograd, Rossiya761 km N (5°)48.500° N, 45.800° Egcat-sites
… and 18 more within 1000 km

Nuclear detonations — 65 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
USSR test 2440491502 km NNW (339°)45.880° N, 42.490° Enuclear-tests
REGION568 km N (1°)46.800° N, 45.000° Enuclear-tests
VEGA621 km NNE (24°)46.730° N, 48.197° Enuclear-tests
VEGA623 km NNE (24°)46.743° N, 48.213° Enuclear-tests
VEGA623 km NNE (24°)46.748° N, 48.215° Enuclear-tests
VEGA626 km NNE (25°)46.754° N, 48.270° Enuclear-tests
VEGA626 km NNE (23°)46.843° N, 48.023° Enuclear-tests
VEGA629 km NNE (25°)46.790° N, 48.270° Enuclear-tests
VEGA629 km NNE (25°)46.780° N, 48.300° Enuclear-tests
VEGA630 km NNE (25°)46.790° N, 48.290° Enuclear-tests
VEGA631 km NNE (25°)46.796° N, 48.297° Enuclear-tests
VEGA632 km NNE (25°)46.817° N, 48.279° Enuclear-tests
VEGA633 km NNE (25°)46.816° N, 48.291° Enuclear-tests
VEGA633 km NNE (25°)46.820° N, 48.280° Enuclear-tests
VEGA633 km NNE (24°)46.837° N, 48.231° Enuclear-tests
… and 50 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.

What can pass overhead

Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit on 2026-10-18, 19,939 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 41.691° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,312 never reach this latitude.

space stationinclinationcan pass overhead
Bai Xiang85.0°yes
International Space Station (+3 docked records)51.6°yes
Kosmos-38255.9°yes
Tianhe41.5°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 from here

The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands 41.8° 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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