The local space context of Xiangtan 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 | 27.850° N, 112.900° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 959,303 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 309 km SE (137°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 431 km ENE (72°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 668 km E (97°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 702 km ENE (59°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 736 km S (187°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 737 km E (84°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 763 km N (1°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 879 km NNW (345°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 887 km ENE (73°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 908 km SSW (193°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 933 km ENE (66°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 937 km SSW (193°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 939 km SSW (193°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 961 km SE (126°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 937 km SSW (193°) | 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, 20,417 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 27.850° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,834 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 57.5° 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.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
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