The local space context of Yuncheng 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 | 35.023° N, 110.993° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 680,036 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 70 km NW (315°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 191 km E (100°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 311 km NNE (27°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 622 km ENE (76°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 634 km NW (313°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 718 km NW (320°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 825 km NE (47°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 875 km E (79°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 887 km SE (138°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 891 km ESE (118°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 929 km E (88°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 940 km ENE (75°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 958 km WNW (302°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 963 km ENE (63°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 501 km ENE (62°) | 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, 20,064 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 35.023° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,187 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 49.3° 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.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
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