The local space context of Hezhou 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 | 24.404° N, 111.567° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,005,490 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 350 km S (173°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 379 km ENE (65°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 507 km S (187°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 536 km S (187°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 538 km S (187°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 598 km SSW (205°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 750 km NE (46°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 855 km ENE (69°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 893 km W (266°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 933 km E (101°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 981 km ENE (62°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 988 km ESE (103°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 536 km S (187°) | 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, 20,603 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 24.404° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,648 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 61.5° 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,
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