The local space context of Yiwu 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 | 29.315° N, 120.077° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,481,384 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 117 km SSE (164°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 171 km ENE (68°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 200 km NNW (336°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 253 km NE (41°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 262 km S (190°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 290 km W (263°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 630 km N (9°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 635 km SW (233°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 689 km NNE (23°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Barge launch site, Jungmun, Jeju I. | 740 km NE (53°) | 33.200° N, 126.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 748 km S (177°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 756 km N (3°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 800 km NNW (345°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 803 km S (174°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 839 km N (7°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 3 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 738 km NE (52°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6 | 905 km NE (49°) | 34.432° N, 127.535° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 937 km NNW (337°) | 37.017° N, 115.995° E | nuclear-tests |
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, 20,291 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 29.315° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,960 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 55.8° 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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