The local space context of Xinyu 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 | 27.804° N, 114.933° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 839,488 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 223 km S (178°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 250 km ENE (58°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 469 km E (100°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 539 km E (83°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 543 km NE (49°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 700 km ENE (69°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 757 km ENE (60°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 784 km SSW (203°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 788 km NNW (347°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 805 km SE (135°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 873 km SE (135°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 952 km NNW (335°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 970 km SSW (205°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 973 km NNE (15°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 987 km NE (35°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 2 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 997 km SSW (205°) | 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, 20,419 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 27.804° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,832 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.
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