The local space context of Guli 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 | 28.882° N, 120.033° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 964,203 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 74 km SSE (151°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 197 km NE (55°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 214 km SSW (192°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 243 km NNW (341°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 284 km W (273°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 294 km NE (35°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 604 km WSW (237°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 678 km N (9°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 700 km S (176°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 736 km NNE (22°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 756 km S (173°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Barge launch site, Jungmun, Jeju I. | 773 km NE (50°) | 33.200° N, 126.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 805 km N (4°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 846 km NNW (346°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 887 km N (7°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 2 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 772 km NE (50°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6 | 940 km NE (47°) | 34.432° N, 127.535° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 980 km NNW (338°) | 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, 20,318 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 28.882° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,933 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 56.3° 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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