The local space context of Changzhi 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 | 35.209° N, 111.739° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 699,514 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 121 km WNW (284°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 132 km ESE (115°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 266 km NNE (17°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 551 km ENE (76°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 672 km NW (308°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 749 km NW (315°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 762 km NE (45°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 805 km E (80°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 842 km ESE (122°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 859 km SE (142°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 861 km E (90°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 869 km ENE (75°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 893 km ENE (63°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 432 km ENE (61°) | 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, 20,060 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 35.209° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,191 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 49.1° 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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