The local space context of Lianjiang 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 | 21.647° N, 110.282° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,363,470 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 182 km ESE (103°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 209 km SSE (160°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 236 km SSE (163°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 238 km SSE (163°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 265 km SSW (207°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 666 km NE (45°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 796 km WNW (287°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 808/402 Brigade Missile Base, Chuxiong, Yunnan province | 970 km WNW (295°) | 25.062° N, 101.532° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 236 km SSE (163°) | 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, 20,685 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 21.647° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,566 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 64.6° 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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