The local space context of Huangshi 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 | 30.247° N, 115.048° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 688,090 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 246 km SE (125°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 407 km ENE (78°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 495 km S (181°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 530 km NNW (340°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 562 km ESE (111°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 572 km SE (128°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 643 km E (92°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 653 km E (81°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 710 km NNE (20°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 723 km NW (325°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 774 km NE (46°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 830 km NE (37°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 837 km NNW (345°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 913 km NE (53°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 925 km NE (36°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 758 km N (6°) | 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, 20,269 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.247° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,982 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 54.7° 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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