The local space context of Zhangzhou 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 | 24.513° N, 117.656° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 589,831 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 303 km WNW (299°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 338 km NE (35°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 360 km SE (126°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 426 km SE (128°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 498 km N (354°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 502 km NNE (32°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 682 km WSW (239°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 719 km NNE (33°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 732 km NNE (12°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 831 km NNE (29°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 861 km SW (234°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 880 km SW (233°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 882 km SW (233°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 880 km SW (233°) | 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, 20,600 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 24.513° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,651 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 61.3° 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,
then stand at Zhangzhou in Stargazing — it computes which satellites are visible now, from this
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