The local space context of Tripoli 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 | 32.887° N, 13.187° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,302,947 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tripoli missile base, Tripoli, Libya | 47 km SSW (202°) | 32.500° N, 13.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Seba Oasis, Sabha?, Camp Tawiwa, Jarmash, Libya | 667 km S (169°) | 26.988° N, 14.458° E | gcat-sites |
| Poligono Sperimentale e di Addestramento Interforze del Salto di Quirra | 819 km NNW (337°) | 39.600° N, 9.430° E | gcat-sites |
| Salto di Quirra (San Lorenzo), Perdas de Fogu, Sardegna | 819 km NNW (337°) | 39.600° N, 9.430° E | gcat-sites |
| Koroni, Peloponnisos, Hellas (beach launch area) | 908 km ENE (59°) | 36.770° N, 21.950° E | gcat-sites |
| Jupiter sites, Gioia del Colle, Italy | 936 km NNE (20°) | 40.760° N, 16.930° 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, 20,211 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 32.887° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,040 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 51.7° 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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