The local space context of Wuzhou 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 | 23.480° N, 111.288° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 761,948 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 255 km SSE (163°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 402 km S (185°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 431 km S (185°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 433 km S (185°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 455 km NE (55°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 493 km SSW (207°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 843 km NE (42°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 863 km W (273°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 923 km ENE (63°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 947 km E (94°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 998 km E (97°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 431 km S (185°) | 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, 20,639 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.480° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,612 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 62.5° 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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