The local space context of Chenzhou 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 | 25.800° N, 113.033° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 822,534 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 197 km E (90°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 514 km SSW (192°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 536 km NE (48°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 667 km ENE (77°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 692 km SSW (198°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 720 km SSW (198°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 723 km SSW (198°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 781 km ENE (67°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 805 km SSW (211°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 833 km NE (45°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 837 km ESE (114°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 899 km ESE (115°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 966 km ENE (60°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 991 km N (0°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 720 km SSW (198°) | 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, 20,542 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 25.800° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,709 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 59.8° 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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