The local space context of Laibin 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 | 23.747° N, 109.222° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 910,282 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 396 km SE (133°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 466 km SSE (157°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 469 km S (181°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 493 km SSE (158°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 494 km SSE (159°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 626 km ENE (67°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 652 km W (270°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 808/402 Brigade Missile Base, Chuxiong, Yunnan province | 792 km WNW (282°) | 25.062° N, 101.532° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 876 km NW (306°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 977 km NE (52°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 493 km SSE (158°) | 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, 20,631 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.747° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,620 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 62.2° 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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