The local space context of Jingmen 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 | 31.034° N, 112.205° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 632,954 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 416 km N (11°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 520 km NNW (342°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 526 km ESE (115°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 643 km SSE (154°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 669 km E (89°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 720 km N (3°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 771 km NE (40°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 847 km ESE (120°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 848 km ESE (109°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 916 km E (88°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 920 km E (96°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 942 km ENE (60°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 958 km NE (52°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 751 km NNE (27°) | 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, 20,252 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 31.034° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,999 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 53.8° 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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