The local space context of Shaoyang 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 | 27.238° N, 111.462° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 753,194 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 387 km ESE (114°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 587 km ENE (70°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 665 km S (175°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 806 km E (90°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 820 km S (184°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 844 km N (10°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 849 km S (184°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 851 km S (184°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 859 km ENE (59°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 887 km E (80°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 890 km SSW (196°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 921 km N (354°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 935 km W (279°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 956 km WSW (247°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 849 km S (184°) | 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, 20,440 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 27.238° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,811 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 58.2° 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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