The local space context of Xiangyang 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 | 32.042° N, 112.145° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,294,733 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 308 km NNE (16°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 413 km NNW (338°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 586 km SE (124°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 608 km N (4°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 682 km E (98°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 693 km NE (46°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 748 km SSE (157°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 896 km ESE (116°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 897 km ENE (67°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 898 km ENE (58°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 913 km SE (126°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 924 km E (95°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 943 km ESE (102°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 953 km NW (323°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 984 km NE (55°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 656 km NNE (31°) | 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, 20,237 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 32.042° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,014 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 52.7° 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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