The local space context of Jieyang 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 | 23.542° N, 116.366° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,899,394 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 287 km NNW (331°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 436 km ESE (103°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 492 km ESE (108°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 504 km NE (40°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 514 km WSW (242°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 608 km N (7°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 665 km NE (36°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 691 km SW (235°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 710 km SW (233°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 713 km SW (233°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 871 km NNE (18°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 872 km WSW (241°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 882 km NE (36°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 991 km NNE (32°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 710 km SW (233°) | 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, 20,637 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.542° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,614 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 62.4° 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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