The local space context of Baoji 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 | 34.368° N, 107.237° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,437,802 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 317 km ENE (66°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 509 km NNW (344°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 534 km E (84°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 595 km NE (53°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 627 km NNW (347°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 740 km NW (319°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 841 km SW (217°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 973 km ENE (75°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 979 km WNW (293°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 982 km NW (324°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 953 km NW (322°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 954 km NW (322°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 844 km ENE (67°) | 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, 20,193 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 34.368° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,058 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 50.1° 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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