The local space context of Zhuhai 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 | 22.277° N, 113.568° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 2,207,090 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangjiang launch area | 196 km SW (236°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 380 km SW (226°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 402 km SW (223°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 405 km SW (223°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 418 km NNE (20°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Haikou Space Center, Hainan | 554 km WSW (237°) | 19.529° N, 109.119° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 713 km E (86°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 757 km E (90°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 804 km NE (48°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 825 km NNE (25°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 959 km NE (44°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 402 km SW (223°) | 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, 20,674 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 22.277° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,577 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 63.9° 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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