The local space context of Chaozhou 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 | 23.654° N, 116.623° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,750,945 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 289 km NW (326°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 413 km ESE (106°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 472 km ESE (110°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 477 km NE (38°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 543 km WSW (242°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 593 km N (5°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 640 km NE (35°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 720 km SW (235°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 738 km SW (234°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 741 km SW (234°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 851 km NNE (17°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 857 km NE (35°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 901 km WSW (241°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 966 km NNE (31°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 738 km SW (234°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | launchlibrary |
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, 20,633 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.654° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,618 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 62.3° 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.
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