The local space context of Wanxian 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 | 30.816° N, 108.374° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 859,662 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 553 km NNE (20°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 615 km NE (44°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 677 km WSW (247°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 839 km NNE (26°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 855 km SE (129°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 867 km ESE (101°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 918 km NNW (345°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| 808/402 Brigade Missile Base, Chuxiong, Yunnan province | 928 km SW (228°) | 25.062° N, 101.532° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 970 km SW (216°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 984 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, 20,257 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.816° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,994 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 54.1° 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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