The local space context of Sanming 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 | 26.249° N, 117.619° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 602,166 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuan? missile base | 214 km ENE (67°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 266 km W (260°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 307 km N (351°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 357 km NE (50°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 500 km SE (144°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 546 km NNE (16°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 567 km SE (143°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 570 km NE (44°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 670 km NE (37°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 795 km SW (227°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 982 km SW (225°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° 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, 20,518 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 26.249° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,733 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 59.3° 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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