The local space context of Qingyang 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 | 35.710° N, 107.645° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 2,125,400 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 255 km E (95°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 384 km NNW (333°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 485 km ENE (64°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 495 km NNW (339°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 504 km E (101°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 665 km NW (308°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 891 km NW (317°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 908 km E (83°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 966 km WNW (284°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 984 km SW (214°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 866 km NW (314°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 867 km NW (315°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 761 km ENE (77°) | 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, 20,049 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 35.710° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,202 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 48.5° 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.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
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