The local space context of Meizhou 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 | 24.289° N, 116.118° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 992,351 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 202 km NNW (326°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 461 km NE (48°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 485 km ESE (112°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 530 km N (11°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 539 km SW (232°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 546 km ESE (115°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 617 km NE (43°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 723 km SW (228°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 744 km SW (227°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 747 km SW (227°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 801 km NNE (22°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 833 km NE (40°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 895 km SW (235°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 935 km NE (36°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 744 km SW (227°) | 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 24.289° 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 61.6° 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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