The local space context of Qinzhou 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 | 21.983° N, 108.651° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,296,300 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 277 km S (170°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 335 km SE (134°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 355 km ESE (102°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 356 km SE (137°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 356 km SE (138°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 625 km WNW (288°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 772 km NE (55°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 808/402 Brigade Missile Base, Chuxiong, Yunnan province | 802 km WNW (297°) | 25.062° N, 101.532° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 964 km NW (318°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 356 km SE (137°) | 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, 20,681 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 21.983° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,570 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 64.2° 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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