The local space context of Suizhou 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 | 31.711° N, 113.363° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 618,582 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 335 km N (355°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 472 km SE (129°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 498 km NNW (328°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 563 km E (97°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 643 km NE (37°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 647 km N (354°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 676 km SSE (166°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 776 km ESE (117°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 800 km SE (129°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 806 km E (93°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 809 km ENE (62°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 823 km ESE (102°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 825 km NE (52°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 915 km NE (50°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 966 km ENE (65°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 637 km NNE (22°) | 37.017° N, 115.995° E | nuclear-tests |
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, 20,240 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 31.711° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,011 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 53.1° 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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