The local space context of Jingzhou 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 | 30.350° N, 112.190° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,052,282 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 491 km N (9°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 500 km ESE (107°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 576 km SSE (151°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 592 km NNW (345°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 676 km E (83°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 796 km N (3°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 813 km ESE (115°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 828 km ESE (104°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 831 km NE (37°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 918 km E (91°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 924 km E (83°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 982 km ENE (57°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 820 km NNE (24°) | 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, 20,268 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 30.350° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,983 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 54.6° 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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