The local space context of Zarqa 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 | 32.073° N, 36.088° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 792,665 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sdot HaElah (Sdot Micha) Airbase | 117 km WSW (253°) | 31.755° N, 34.910° E | gcat-sites |
| Israeli Air Force Test Range, Palmachim Beach, Israel | 132 km W (262°) | 31.900° N, 34.700° E | gcat-sites |
| Negev Desert test site, Hadarom Hanegev, Israel | 158 km SW (221°) | 31.000° N, 35.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Eastern Mediterranean Sea | 197 km W (268°) | 32.000° N, 34.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Dbayeh launch site, LRS | 211 km NNW (348°) | 33.930° N, 35.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nasriyah missile base, Syria | 219 km NNE (19°) | 33.928° N, 36.877° E | gcat-sites |
| Hama missile base, Syria | 344 km N (9°) | 35.121° N, 36.711° E | gcat-sites |
| H3 (al-Wallid) Airbase, Al Anbar | 355 km ENE (73°) | 32.930° N, 39.740° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, unknown, N of Halab/Alleppo?, Syria | 371 km NNE (28°) | 35.000° N, 38.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Deversoir Air Base | 401 km WSW (244°) | 30.423° N, 32.335° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Al Safir, Aleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 456 km NNE (14°) | 36.034° N, 37.351° E | gcat-sites |
| Syrian missile base, Minakh, N of Halab/Alleppo, Syria (Base at Al Safir) | 502 km N (10°) | 36.519° N, 37.039° E | gcat-sites |
| Mobile launchers in Iraq, western launch area | 505 km ENE (64°) | 34.000° N, 41.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jabal Hamzah | 565 km WSW (249°) | 30.127° N, 30.607° E | gcat-sites |
| Al Nikheb (Al Nuqaub) | 582 km E (89°) | 32.030° N, 42.260° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 10 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, 20,235 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 32.073° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,016 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 52.7° 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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