The local space context of Changde 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 | 29.032° N, 111.698° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,457,419 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 485 km SE (137°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 527 km E (89°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 644 km N (11°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 726 km N (351°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 755 km ENE (72°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 808 km ESE (104°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 853 km E (93°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 863 km S (178°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 945 km N (5°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 947 km W (267°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 974 km E (82°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 979 km NNE (34°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 999 km ENE (75°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 974 km NNE (23°) | 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, 20,299 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 29.032° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,952 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 56.1° 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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