The local space context of Xianyang 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 | 34.338° N, 108.703° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,034,081 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 203 km NE (51°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 400 km E (83°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 497 km NE (44°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 564 km NNW (332°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 672 km NNW (337°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 837 km NW (313°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 844 km ENE (73°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 927 km SW (225°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 995 km SE (125°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 723 km ENE (64°) | 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, 20,193 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 34.338° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,058 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 50.1° 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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