The local space context of Yangjiang 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 | 21.856° N, 111.963° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,292,987 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 64 km S (177°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 244 km SSW (205°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 271 km SSW (203°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 273 km SSW (203°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 393 km SW (229°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 536 km NE (35°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 883 km E (83°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 924 km E (86°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 945 km NNE (32°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 958 km WNW (284°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 961 km NE (52°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 271 km SSW (203°) | 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, 20,682 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 21.856° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,569 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 64.4° 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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