The local space context of Wuwei 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 | 37.927° N, 102.632° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,010,295 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alashan Youqi airport | 173 km NNW (327°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 275 km ENE (69°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 333 km NE (49°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 426 km NNW (333°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 497 km W (265°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| Yumen Missile Base, China | 578 km WNW (295°) | 40.000° N, 96.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 412 Brigade Missile Base, Da Qaidam, Qinghai province | 638 km W (271°) | 37.852° N, 95.355° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 748 km ESE (109°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 878 km E (90°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Hami missile base, Xinjiang | 990 km WNW (303°) | 42.328° N, 92.492° E | gcat-sites |
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 995 km NE (37°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 999 km ESE (108°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 391 km NNW (329°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 392 km NNW (330°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
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, 20,012 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 37.927° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,239 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 46.0° 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.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
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