The local space context of Weinan 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 | 34.504° N, 109.509° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,199,290 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 138 km NE (38°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 325 km E (85°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 434 km NE (39°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 587 km NW (325°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 689 km NNW (331°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 768 km ENE (73°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 881 km NW (309°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 946 km SE (128°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 965 km NE (49°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 990 km ESE (111°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 993 km SW (228°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 648 km ENE (63°) | 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, 20,188 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 34.504° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,063 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 49.9° 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.
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