The local space context of Yinchuan 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 | 38.468° N, 106.273° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 2,859,074 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayan Hot test range | 66 km WNW (299°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 165 km NNW (339°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 418 km WNW (283°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 498 km SE (131°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 565 km E (99°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 599 km WNW (304°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 735 km ESE (123°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 783 km NNE (23°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 819 km W (265°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| Yumen Missile Base, China | 858 km WNW (285°) | 40.000° N, 96.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 412 Brigade Missile Base, Da Qaidam, Qinghai province | 956 km W (269°) | 37.852° N, 95.355° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 582 km WNW (300°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 583 km WNW (300°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 869 km E (98°) | 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, 20,003 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 38.468° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,248 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 45.4° 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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