The local space context of Ordos 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 | 39.609° N, 109.782° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 2,153,638 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 339 km SE (133°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 360 km W (276°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 372 km WSW (257°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 463 km S (173°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 588 km N (3°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 617 km SSE (151°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 708 km W (269°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 711 km E (85°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 790 km ESE (116°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 823 km WNW (286°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 944 km E (79°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 967 km E (94°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 980 km ENE (76°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 818 km WNW (284°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 821 km WNW (283°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 614 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, 19,988 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 39.609° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,263 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 44.2° 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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