The local space context of Yichang 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 | 30.714° N, 111.285° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,350,150 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 474 km NNE (20°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 535 km N (352°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 595 km ESE (108°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 656 km SE (145°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 758 km E (86°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 764 km N (9°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 855 km NE (42°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 909 km ESE (115°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 922 km ESE (105°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 937 km WSW (255°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 825 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, 20,258 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.714° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,993 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 54.2° 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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