The local space context of Ganzhou 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 | 25.847° N, 114.933° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,977,253 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 9 km SE (128°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 409 km NNE (31°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 482 km ENE (74°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 589 km SSW (211°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 606 km ENE (62°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 670 km ESE (121°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 705 km NE (35°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 735 km ESE (123°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 779 km SSW (212°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 803 km NE (55°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 804 km SSW (211°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 807 km SSW (211°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 885 km NE (48°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 921 km SW (221°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 804 km SSW (211°) | 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, 20,538 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 25.847° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,713 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.
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