The local space context of Xining 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 | 36.626° N, 101.757° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 2,467,965 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alashan Youqi airport | 290 km N (356°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 413 km NE (54°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 429 km WNW (283°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 490 km NE (42°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 536 km NNW (347°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| 412 Brigade Missile Base, Da Qaidam, Qinghai province | 583 km WNW (285°) | 37.852° N, 95.355° E | gcat-sites |
| Yumen Missile Base, China | 592 km NW (311°) | 40.000° N, 96.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 791 km E (97°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 932 km S (178°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 966 km E (81°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 495 km NNW (345°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 498 km NNW (346°) | 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, 20,034 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 36.626° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,217 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 47.5° 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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