The local space context of Xiamen 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 | 24.480° N, 118.082° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 4,617,251 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuan? missile base | 319 km NNE (28°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 323 km SE (130°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 343 km WNW (296°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 390 km SE (131°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 483 km NNE (28°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 508 km N (349°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 700 km NNE (30°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 717 km WSW (241°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 728 km N (9°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 815 km NNE (26°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 894 km WSW (236°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 912 km SW (235°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 915 km SW (235°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 912 km SW (235°) | 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, 20,602 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 24.480° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,649 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 61.4° 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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