The local space context of Huizhou 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 | 23.111° N, 114.415° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 2,900,113 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 305 km N (11°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 321 km SW (231°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 507 km SW (225°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 529 km SW (223°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 532 km SW (223°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 626 km E (94°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 676 km E (98°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 678 km SW (235°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 678 km NE (49°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 705 km NNE (22°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 832 km NE (45°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 993 km NNE (28°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 529 km SW (223°) | 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, 20,647 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.111° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,604 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 62.9° 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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