The local space context of Puning 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 | 23.311° N, 116.169° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,998,619 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 301 km NNW (337°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 450 km E (99°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 485 km WSW (243°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 505 km ESE (104°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 536 km NE (39°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 636 km N (8°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 660 km SW (236°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 678 km SW (234°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 681 km SW (234°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 698 km NE (36°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 842 km WSW (241°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 901 km NNE (19°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 915 km NE (36°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 678 km SW (234°) | 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, 20,642 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.311° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,609 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 62.7° 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.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
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