The local space context of Yichun 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 | 27.833° N, 114.400° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,045,952 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 234 km SSE (165°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 295 km ENE (64°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 522 km E (99°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 581 km NE (52°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 591 km E (84°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 748 km ENE (71°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 768 km SSW (199°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 775 km N (351°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 801 km ENE (62°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 845 km SE (132°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 913 km SE (133°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 928 km NNW (337°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 951 km SSW (202°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 979 km SSW (202°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 981 km SSW (202°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 1 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 979 km SSW (202°) | 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, 20,418 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 27.833° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,833 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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