Yerevan (AM)

The local space context of Yerevan 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.

position40.178° N, 44.513° EGeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0
population1,144,700 inhabitantsGeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0

On the ground within 1000 km

Launch sites — 38 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
Unknown Iskander launch site, Armenia0 km NW (319°)40.180° N, 44.510° Egcat-sites
Tabriz Missile Base S284 km SSE (149°)37.978° N, 46.176° Egcat-sites
Ordzhonikidze missile base, Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz), S Ossetia316 km N (2°)43.020° N, 44.650° Egcat-sites
North Ossetia? Possible Iskander launch point317 km N (352°)43.000° N, 44.000° Egcat-sites
Rize-Artvin Havalimani330 km WNW (291°)41.169° N, 40.829° Egcat-sites
Derecik missile base346 km S (183°)37.074° N, 44.304° Egcat-sites
Makhachkala missile base, Makhachkala, Dagestan375 km NE (41°)42.700° N, 47.500° Egcat-sites
Tall' Afar Air Base471 km SSW (204°)36.280° N, 42.410° Egcat-sites
Missile base, Kurdistan province, Iran482 km SSE (164°)36.000° N, 46.000° Egcat-sites
Saddam Air Base506 km SSW (194°)35.760° N, 43.120° Egcat-sites
Kirkuk region, Iraq524 km S (181°)35.470° N, 44.400° Egcat-sites
Jebel Himreen, Iraq690 km S (174°)34.000° N, 45.300° Egcat-sites
Bakhtaran/Kermanshah Air Base, Iran690 km SSE (159°)34.357° N, 47.236° Egcat-sites
Mobile launchers in Iraq, western launch area754 km SSW (205°)34.000° N, 41.000° Egcat-sites
Kilometer 160, Ar Ramadi, Al Ambar, Iraq764 km S (190°)33.400° N, 43.100° Egcat-sites
… and 23 more within 1000 km

Nuclear detonations — 62 within 1000 km

sitedistance · bearingpositionsource layer
USSR test 2440491655 km NNW (346°)45.880° N, 42.490° Enuclear-tests
REGION737 km N (3°)46.800° N, 45.000° Enuclear-tests
VEGA787 km NNE (21°)46.730° N, 48.197° Enuclear-tests
VEGA789 km NNE (21°)46.743° N, 48.213° Enuclear-tests
VEGA789 km NNE (21°)46.748° N, 48.215° Enuclear-tests
VEGA791 km NNE (21°)46.754° N, 48.270° Enuclear-tests
VEGA793 km NNE (20°)46.843° N, 48.023° Enuclear-tests
VEGA795 km NNE (21°)46.780° N, 48.300° Enuclear-tests
VEGA795 km NNE (21°)46.790° N, 48.270° Enuclear-tests
VEGA796 km NNE (21°)46.790° N, 48.290° Enuclear-tests
VEGA796 km NNE (21°)46.796° N, 48.297° Enuclear-tests
VEGA798 km NNE (21°)46.817° N, 48.279° Enuclear-tests
VEGA798 km NNE (21°)46.816° N, 48.291° Enuclear-tests
VEGA798 km NNE (21°)46.820° N, 48.280° Enuclear-tests
VEGA799 km NNE (21°)46.837° N, 48.231° Enuclear-tests
… and 47 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, 19,971 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 40.178° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,280 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°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 from here

The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands 43.5° 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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