The local space context of Anqing 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 | 30.514° N, 117.047° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 804,493 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 172 km S (178°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 213 km ENE (76°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 407 km SE (126°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 454 km E (98°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 459 km E (82°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 463 km SSE (147°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 561 km SSW (201°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 598 km NW (322°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 623 km NE (37°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 639 km N (5°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 703 km NNE (27°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 747 km NE (47°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 797 km NNE (28°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 826 km NW (314°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 878 km NNW (333°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 3 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 930 km ENE (69°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 730 km N (353°) | 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, 20,262 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.514° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,989 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 54.4° 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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