The local space context of Hengyang 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 | 26.890° N, 112.619° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,075,516 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 266 km ESE (117°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 499 km ENE (61°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 627 km S (186°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 692 km E (87°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 783 km ENE (77°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 785 km NE (53°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 798 km SSW (193°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 827 km SSW (192°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 829 km SSW (192°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 870 km N (3°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 893 km SSW (204°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 928 km ESE (119°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 950 km ENE (67°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 977 km NNW (348°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 992 km ESE (120°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 827 km SSW (192°) | 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, 20,473 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 26.890° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,778 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 58.6° 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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