The local space context of Tianshui 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 | 34.580° N, 105.742° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,212,791 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 440 km ENE (76°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 465 km N (359°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 586 km N (359°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 637 km NW (325°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 669 km E (87°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 697 km ENE (60°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 787 km SSW (208°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 844 km WNW (294°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 887 km NNW (329°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| 412 Brigade Missile Base, Da Qaidam, Qinghai province | 1,000 km WNW (294°) | 37.852° N, 95.355° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 854 km NNW (327°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 856 km NNW (328°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 963 km ENE (71°) | 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, 20,186 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 34.580° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,065 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 49.8° 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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