The local space context of Pingxiang 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 | 27.617° N, 113.853° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 893,550 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 232 km SSE (150°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 353 km ENE (64°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 572 km E (96°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 639 km NE (53°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 647 km E (82°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 729 km SSW (195°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 792 km N (355°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 807 km ENE (70°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 860 km ENE (62°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 871 km SE (128°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 910 km SSW (199°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 931 km NNW (341°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 938 km SSW (199°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 938 km SE (129°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 940 km SSW (199°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 938 km SSW (199°) | 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, 20,428 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 27.617° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,823 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 57.8° 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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