The local space context of Yongzhou 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 | 26.424° N, 111.613° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,020,715 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 345 km E (101°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 573 km S (176°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 612 km ENE (61°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 731 km S (185°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 760 km S (185°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 762 km S (185°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 796 km E (84°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 808 km SSW (199°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 892 km ENE (74°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 896 km NE (54°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 931 km N (8°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 939 km WSW (253°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China | 968 km WNW (284°) | 28.247° N, 102.029° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 994 km ESE (113°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 760 km S (185°) | 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, 20,512 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 26.424° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,739 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 59.1° 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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