The local space context of Zhaoqing 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 | 23.049° N, 112.461° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,553,109 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 202 km SSW (194°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 385 km SSW (204°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 400 km NE (40°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 413 km SSW (203°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 415 km SSW (203°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 522 km SW (222°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 806 km NE (34°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 825 km E (92°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 843 km ENE (57°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 874 km E (95°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| 802 Brigade missile base, Jianshui (Ching-yu), Yunnan province | 986 km W (276°) | 23.620° N, 102.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 986 km NE (52°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 413 km SSW (203°) | 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, 20,650 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 23.049° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,601 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 63.0° 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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