The local space context of E’zhou 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 | 30.396° N, 114.887° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 668,727 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 268 km SE (126°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 419 km E (80°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 509 km NNW (341°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 511 km S (179°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 583 km ESE (112°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 595 km SE (128°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 659 km E (93°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 666 km E (82°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 700 km NW (325°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 700 km NNE (21°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 774 km NE (48°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 818 km NNW (346°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 826 km NE (38°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 915 km NE (54°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 921 km NE (38°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 743 km N (8°) | 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, 20,264 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.396° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,987 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 54.6° 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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