The local space context of Dalian 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
38.912° N, 121.602° E
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population
7,450,785 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 57 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province
53 km NE (48°)
39.229° N, 122.054° E
gcat-sites
Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here)
76 km SW (233°)
38.500° N, 120.900° E
gcat-sites
Huludao Shipyard test site
210 km NNW (341°)
40.700° N, 120.800° E
gcat-sites
Haiyang test site, Shandong
238 km S (189°)
36.800° N, 121.200° E
gcat-sites
Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province
256 km N (352°)
41.190° N, 121.170° E
gcat-sites
Sohae Launch Site, Tongch'ang-dong, Pyongang-bukdo (N Pyongan Prov), N Korea
280 km ENE (72°)
39.660° N, 124.706° E
gcat-sites
Uiju launch location, N Pyongan province, N Korea
284 km ENE (63°)
40.026° N, 124.578° E
gcat-sites
Dongrim (Tongrim), N Pyongan Prov.
288 km ENE (67°)
39.900° N, 124.700° E
gcat-sites
Sonchon, N Pyongan Prov.
300 km ENE (70°)
39.800° N, 124.900° E
gcat-sites
Kwail? Launch site in S Hwanghae Province
302 km E (99°)
38.426° N, 125.019° E
gcat-sites
Jangyon (Changyon), S Hwanghae prov.
313 km ESE (103°)
38.250° N, 125.100° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Eunyul, N Hwanghae Prov.
314 km E (97°)
38.519° N, 125.183° E
gcat-sites
51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province
319 km WNW (290°)
39.856° N, 118.093° E
gcat-sites
Jianggezhuang Submarine Base
325 km SSW (196°)
36.104° N, 120.579° E
gcat-sites
Musudan launch site, Banghyon Airport, Kusong City, N Pyongan Prov.
328 km ENE (69°)
39.900° N, 125.200° E
gcat-sites
… and 42 more within 1000 km
Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Punggye-ri
688 km ENE (65°)
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, 20,001 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 38.912° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,250 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
44.9° 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.
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 Dalian 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.