The local space context of Yueyang 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 | 29.375° N, 113.095° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 991,465 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 393 km E (96°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 440 km SSE (154°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 593 km N (360°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 614 km ENE (72°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 690 km ESE (111°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 721 km E (98°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 722 km NNW (341°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 835 km E (84°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 858 km ENE (76°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 876 km NNE (28°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 905 km N (357°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 907 km S (187°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 978 km NE (49°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 891 km NNE (17°) | 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 29.375° 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 55.7° 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.
/sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
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