The local space context of Qingyuan 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 | 23.700° N, 113.033° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,738,424 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 289 km SSW (202°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 307 km NE (40°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 476 km SSW (207°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 503 km SSW (206°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 505 km SSW (206°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 615 km SW (222°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 713 km NE (34°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 755 km ENE (60°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 773 km E (98°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 826 km E (101°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 896 km NE (54°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 503 km SSW (206°) | 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, 20,633 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.700° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,618 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 62.3° 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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