The local space context of Bayan Nur 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 | 40.741° N, 107.386° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,760,000 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 182 km WSW (238°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 268 km SW (215°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 513 km NNE (25°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 525 km WSW (253°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 576 km SE (127°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 597 km W (278°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 644 km SSE (154°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 835 km SE (142°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 913 km E (93°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Yumen Missile Base, China | 925 km W (268°) | 40.000° N, 96.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 967 km WSW (251°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 597 km W (275°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 600 km W (274°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 852 km ESE (116°) | 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, 19,965 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 40.741° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,286 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 42.9° 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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