The local space context of Shiyan 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 | 32.648° N, 110.778° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 3,460,000 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 311 km NE (42°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 316 km N (355°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 564 km NNE (17°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 731 km ESE (122°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 751 km NE (56°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 820 km E (101°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 824 km NNW (327°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 864 km SSE (151°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 926 km NNW (331°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 970 km WSW (242°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 978 km ENE (64°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 994 km ENE (73°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 680 km NE (43°) | 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, 20,214 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 32.648° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,037 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 52.0° 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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