The local space context of Warsaw 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 | 52.230° N, 21.012° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,702,139 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truppenubungsplatz Heidelager, Blizna, Krakow, Polska | 232 km SSE (166°) | 50.200° N, 21.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Heidekraut, Tucheler Heide, Deutschland (now Polska) | 253 km NW (308°) | 53.600° N, 18.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leba (Ustka), Slupsk, Pomerania, Polska | 364 km NW (322°) | 54.780° N, 17.550° E | gcat-sites |
| Centrum Szkolenia Wojsk Ladowych Drawsko | 377 km WNW (293°) | 53.433° N, 15.764° E | gcat-sites |
| Centralny Poligon Sil Powietrzynch | 389 km NW (313°) | 54.550° N, 16.610° E | gcat-sites |
| Heersversuchsstelle Peenemunde, Usedom, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 526 km WNW (297°) | 54.173° N, 13.801° E | gcat-sites |
| Belarus missile launch sites in Russian invasion of Ukraine | 546 km E (90°) | 52.000° N, 29.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Zingst Range, MMR-06 pad, DDR | 595 km WNW (295°) | 54.200° N, 12.700° E | gcat-sites |
| ATACMS launch location, Ukraine | 689 km ESE (103°) | 50.450° N, 30.520° E | gcat-sites |
| Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Deutschland | 842 km WNW (287°) | 53.870° N, 8.700° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Burgsteinfurt | 934 km W (275°) | 52.100° N, 7.300° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area near Hachenburg/Montaburg | 936 km W (263°) | 50.500° N, 7.800° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Remscheid | 957 km W (268°) | 51.180° N, 7.200° E | gcat-sites |
| V-2 launch area, Enschede, Nederlanden | 960 km W (276°) | 52.220° N, 6.890° E | gcat-sites |
| Alibey Test Range, Odessa, Ukraine | 971 km SE (134°) | 45.815° N, 30.084° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 3 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.
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit on 2026-10-18, 15,081 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 52.230° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 8,170 never reach this latitude.
| space station | inclination | can pass overhead |
|---|---|---|
| Bai Xiang | 85.0° | yes |
| International Space Station (+3 docked records) | 51.6° | no — its track stops at 51.6° |
| Kosmos-382 | 55.9° | yes |
| Tianhe | 41.5° | 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 arcs across the southern sky and stands 30.3° 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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