The local space context of Liuzhou 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 | 24.324° N, 109.407° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,436,599 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 430 km SE (141°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 520 km SSE (162°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 534 km S (183°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 547 km SSE (163°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 549 km SSE (163°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 587 km ENE (73°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 674 km W (265°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 808/402 Brigade Missile Base, Chuxiong, Yunnan province | 800 km W (278°) | 25.062° N, 101.532° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 855 km WNW (302°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 924 km NE (54°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 547 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, 20,604 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 24.324° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,647 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 61.5° 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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