The local space context of Zhongwei 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 | 37.511° N, 105.191° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,174,600 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayan Hot test range | 143 km NNE (15°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 262 km N (7°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 370 km WNW (302°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 522 km ESE (114°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 595 km NW (317°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 653 km E (88°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 414 Brigade Missile Base, Delingha, Qinghai province | 720 km W (272°) | 37.408° N, 97.028° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 771 km ESE (111°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Yumen Missile Base, China | 802 km WNW (293°) | 40.000° N, 96.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 412 Brigade Missile Base, Da Qaidam, Qinghai province | 866 km W (276°) | 37.852° N, 95.355° E | gcat-sites |
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 919 km NNE (25°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 570 km NW (313°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 570 km NW (314°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 957 km E (90°) | 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, 20,017 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 37.511° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,234 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 46.5° 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.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
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