The local space context of Shenzhen 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 | 22.546° N, 114.068° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 17,494,398 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 256 km WSW (237°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 374 km NNE (14°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 438 km SW (228°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 459 km SW (225°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 462 km SW (225°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 613 km WSW (238°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 660 km E (88°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 706 km E (92°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 746 km NE (47°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 777 km NNE (23°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 902 km NE (43°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 459 km SW (225°) | 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, 20,665 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 22.546° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,586 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 63.6° 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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