The local space context of Visakhapatnam 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 | 17.680° N, 83.202° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,063,178 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDO-ENESTIEL Naval Sci/Tech Lab, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh | 6 km ENE (67°) | 17.700° N, 83.250° E | gcat-sites |
| Integrated Test Range, Balasore Range, Chandipur-On-Sea, Orissa, India | 537 km NE (41°) | 21.300° N, 86.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Satish Dhawan Space Ctr, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India | 548 km SW (215°) | 13.621° N, 80.303° E | gcat-sites |
| Satish Dhawan Space Ctr, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India | 548 km SW (215°) | 13.621° N, 80.303° E | gcat-sites |
| Thiruvidanthai, Chennai | 632 km SSW (210°) | 12.760° N, 80.250° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vikram-I | Demo Flight | 542 km SW (216°) | 13.733° N, 80.235° E | launchlibrary |
| GSLV Mk II | GISAT-1A (EOS-05) | 543 km SW (216°) | 13.720° N, 80.230° E | launchlibrary |
| LVM-3 | Gaganyaan-1 | 543 km SW (216°) | 13.720° N, 80.230° E | launchlibrary |
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, 20,820 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 17.680° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,431 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 69.2° 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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