The local space context of Guangzhou 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 | 23.117° N, 113.250° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 18,676,605 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 241 km SSW (212°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 347 km NNE (30°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 431 km SSW (214°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 456 km SSW (212°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 459 km SSW (212°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 585 km SW (228°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 745 km E (93°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 757 km NNE (30°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 772 km NE (55°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 795 km E (96°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 919 km NE (50°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 456 km SSW (212°) | 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, 20,647 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.117° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,604 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 62.9° 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.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
then stand at Guangzhou in Stargazing — it computes which satellites are visible now, from this
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