The local space context of Ankang 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 | 32.680° N, 109.017° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 870,126 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 337 km NNE (23°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 436 km ENE (58°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 627 km NNE (30°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 742 km NNW (336°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 831 km SW (235°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 855 km NNW (340°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 876 km ESE (116°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 890 km ENE (61°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 960 km SE (141°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 983 km E (99°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 990 km NW (319°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 798 km NE (51°) | 37.017° N, 115.995° E | nuclear-tests |
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, 20,214 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 32.680° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,037 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 52.0° 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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