The local space context of Jinhua 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 | 29.107° N, 119.644° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,463,990 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 116 km SE (140°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 209 km N (349°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 218 km ENE (66°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 234 km S (181°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 246 km W (267°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 298 km NE (44°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 587 km SW (232°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 660 km NNE (12°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 727 km NNE (25°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 729 km S (173°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 783 km N (6°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 786 km S (170°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Barge launch site, Jungmun, Jeju I. | 787 km NE (53°) | 33.200° N, 126.400° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 813 km NNW (348°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 868 km N (9°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 2 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 786 km NE (53°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6 | 952 km NE (50°) | 34.432° N, 127.535° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 943 km NNW (340°) | 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, 20,296 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 29.107° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,955 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 56.0° 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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