The local space context of Xingtai 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 | 37.062° N, 114.493° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 798,770 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 174 km WNW (287°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 292 km SSW (207°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 302 km ESE (107°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 403 km WSW (245°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 441 km NE (44°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 554 km E (99°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 585 km ENE (72°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 597 km E (91°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 649 km ESE (110°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 679 km NE (52°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 703 km ENE (68°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 736 km NE (49°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 798 km ESE (104°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 802 km WNW (286°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 807 km SE (146°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 15 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 133 km E (92°) | 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, 20,022 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 37.062° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,229 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 47.0° 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.
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