The local space context of Shizuishan 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 | 38.981° N, 106.389° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 739,400 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayan Hot test range | 72 km WSW (250°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 119 km NW (325°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 419 km W (275°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 530 km SE (136°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 567 km ESE (105°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 578 km WNW (299°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 726 km NNE (24°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 759 km SE (127°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 836 km W (261°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| Yumen Missile Base, China | 856 km W (281°) | 40.000° N, 96.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 412 Brigade Missile Base, Da Qaidam, Qinghai province | 969 km W (266°) | 37.852° N, 95.355° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 564 km WNW (295°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 566 km WNW (294°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 869 km ESE (102°) | 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, 19,998 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 38.981° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,253 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 44.9° 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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