The local space context of Zhuzhou 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 | 27.833° N, 113.150° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,129,687 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 291 km SE (141°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 408 km ENE (71°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 643 km E (97°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 682 km ENE (58°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 713 km E (84°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Yangjiang launch area | 738 km S (189°) | 21.280° N, 112.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 765 km N (359°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 865 km ENE (73°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 887 km NNW (344°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 911 km ENE (65°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| NE Hainan missile launch point | 912 km SSW (195°) | 19.876° N, 110.961° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 941 km SE (127°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| Wenchang Space Center, Hainan | 941 km SSW (194°) | 19.614° N, 110.951° E | gcat-sites |
| Hainan Shangye Hangtian Fashe Chang (Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site) | 943 km SSW (194°) | 19.597° N, 110.931° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 | 941 km SSW (194°) | 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, 20,418 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 27.833° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,833 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 57.5° 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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