The local space context of Guankou 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 | 28.159° N, 113.627° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,380,000 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 295 km SSE (152°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 353 km ENE (74°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 603 km E (101°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 624 km ENE (59°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 664 km E (87°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 730 km N (356°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 782 km SSW (192°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 809 km ENE (74°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 853 km ENE (66°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 867 km NNW (341°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 926 km SE (130°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 960 km SSW (197°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 977 km NNE (22°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 988 km SSW (197°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 991 km SSW (197°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 1 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 988 km SSW (197°) | 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, 20,392 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 28.159° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,859 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 57.1° 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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