The local space context of Putian 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 | 25.439° N, 119.010° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,539,389 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuan? missile base | 183 km NNE (19°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 347 km NNE (23°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 350 km SSE (154°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 404 km W (277°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 416 km SSE (152°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 435 km NNW (335°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 561 km NNE (28°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 613 km N (2°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 679 km NNE (23°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 852 km WSW (239°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
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, 20,558 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 25.439° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,693 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 60.3° 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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