The local space context of Shaoguan 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 | 24.800° N, 113.583° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,028,460 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 181 km NE (52°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 424 km SSW (203°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 581 km NE (36°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 610 km SSW (207°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 637 km SSW (206°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 640 km SSW (206°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 650 km ENE (67°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 745 km SW (219°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 745 km ESE (108°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 782 km ENE (59°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 805 km ESE (110°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 880 km NE (38°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 982 km NE (53°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 637 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, 20,587 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 24.800° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,664 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 61.0° 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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