The local space context of Benxi 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
41.289° N, 123.765° E
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population
865,215 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 54 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Uiju launch location, N Pyongan province, N Korea
156 km SSE (154°)
40.026° N, 124.578° E
gcat-sites
Dongrim (Tongrim), N Pyongan Prov.
173 km SSE (153°)
39.900° N, 124.700° E
gcat-sites
Taegwan Kun missile launch site
177 km SE (133°)
40.200° N, 125.300° E
gcat-sites
406 Brigade Missile Base, Tonghua, Jilin Province
187 km ENE (76°)
41.669° N, 125.955° E
gcat-sites
Sonchon, N Pyongan Prov.
191 km SSE (150°)
39.800° N, 124.900° E
gcat-sites
Musudan launch site, Banghyon Airport, Kusong City, N Pyongan Prov.
196 km SE (141°)
39.900° N, 125.200° E
gcat-sites
Sohae Launch Site, Tongch'ang-dong, Pyongang-bukdo (N Pyongan Prov), N Korea
198 km SSE (156°)
39.660° N, 124.706° E
gcat-sites
Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province
217 km W (268°)
41.190° N, 121.170° E
gcat-sites
Mupyong-ni, Chagang province
236 km ESE (108°)
40.611° N, 126.426° E
gcat-sites
Kaechon, Pyongan Namdo
253 km SE (134°)
39.700° N, 125.900° E
gcat-sites
Huludao Shipyard test site
257 km WSW (256°)
40.700° N, 120.800° E
gcat-sites
Sukchon County launch site, South Pyongan Prov. (Pyong'annam-do), CMIK
261 km SE (143°)
39.400° N, 125.600° E
gcat-sites
410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province
271 km SSW (213°)
39.229° N, 122.054° E
gcat-sites
Sunan Airport, Pyonyang
277 km SE (144°)
39.267° N, 125.675° E
gcat-sites
Jingyu missile base 28, Jingyu, Jilin province
281 km ENE (65°)
42.298° N, 126.877° E
gcat-sites
… and 39 more within 1000 km
Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Punggye-ri
444 km E (88°)
41.280° N, 129.080° E
nuclear-tests
Announced launches (their pads) — 2 within 1000 km
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.
What can pass overhead
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit
on 2026-10-18, 19,952 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 41.289° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,299 never reach this latitude.
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 from here
The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands
42.3° 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.
What this page does not know
Tonight's sky and pass times. They depend on the hour, so a static page would print a
stale number. Open the live scene in a browser: /sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
then stand at Benxi in Stargazing — it computes which satellites are visible now, from this
registry, in your browser.
Anything not catalogued. A site absent from the source catalogues is absent here; an
empty list means «not in the registry», not «nothing there».
Precision beyond the sources. Positions carry the precision their catalogue published.