The local space context of Hanzhong 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 | 33.075° N, 107.022° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,006,557 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 412 km NE (49°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 585 km ENE (70°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 645 km N (349°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 706 km NE (44°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 718 km SW (223°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 764 km N (351°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 842 km NW (326°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 926 km ENE (59°) | 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, 20,210 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 33.075° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,041 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 51.5° 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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