The local space context of Daye 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 | 30.083° N, 114.950° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 871,214 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 244 km ESE (120°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 420 km ENE (76°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 476 km S (179°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 544 km NNW (341°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 565 km ESE (109°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 569 km SE (126°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 652 km E (90°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 666 km E (79°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 731 km NNE (20°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 732 km NW (326°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 793 km NE (46°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 850 km NE (37°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 853 km NNW (346°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 931 km NE (52°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 945 km NE (36°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 1 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 777 km N (7°) | 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, 20,270 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.083° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,981 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 54.9° 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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