The local space context of Heshan 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 | 28.569° N, 112.347° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,249,807 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 405 km SE (139°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 467 km E (83°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 686 km N (5°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 714 km ENE (67°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 734 km ESE (102°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 788 km E (90°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 788 km NNW (347°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 811 km S (183°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 921 km ENE (79°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 953 km ENE (71°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 977 km S (189°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 990 km NNE (29°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 993 km N (1°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 999 km NNE (19°) | 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, 20,344 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 28.569° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,907 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 56.7° 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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