The local space context of Daqing 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 | 46.583° N, 125.000° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,604,027 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbin missile test site, Heilongjiang, Manchuria, China | 159 km SE (125°) | 45.750° N, 126.680° E | gcat-sites |
| Jingyu missile base 28, Jingyu, Jilin province | 499 km SSE (162°) | 42.298° N, 126.877° E | gcat-sites |
| 406 Brigade Missile Base, Tonghua, Jilin Province | 552 km S (172°) | 41.669° N, 125.955° E | gcat-sites |
| Svobodniy, Amurskaya Oblast', Rossiya | 609 km NNE (20°) | 51.700° N, 128.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Vostochniy, Svobodniy, Amurskaya Oblast', Rossiya | 609 km NNE (20°) | 51.700° N, 128.000° E | gcat-sites |
| GIK-2, Svobodniy, Amurskaya Oblast', Rossiya | 623 km NNE (21°) | 51.790° N, 128.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Iskander mobile launch site, Everyskaya avtonomnaya oblast | 645 km ENE (65°) | 48.750° N, 133.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 673 km SSW (208°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| Mupyong-ni, Chagang province | 674 km S (170°) | 40.611° N, 126.426° E | gcat-sites |
| Novosysoyevka missile base | 702 km ESE (109°) | 44.240° N, 133.360° E | gcat-sites |
| Taegwan Kun missile launch site | 710 km S (178°) | 40.200° N, 125.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Uiju launch location, N Pyongan province, N Korea | 730 km S (183°) | 40.026° N, 124.578° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 736 km SSW (209°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Tonghae SLG, Musudan-ri, Hwadae-gun, Hamgyong Pukdo, Choson | 739 km SSE (148°) | 40.850° N, 129.667° E | gcat-sites |
| Musudan launch site, Banghyon Airport, Kusong City, N Pyongan Prov. | 743 km S (179°) | 39.900° N, 125.200° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 36 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Punggye-ri | 674 km SSE (150°) | 41.280° N, 129.080° E | nuclear-tests |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPRK 2017 | 672 km SSE (149°) | 41.300° N, 129.080° E | nukes |
| DPRK 2006 | 674 km SSE (150°) | 41.280° N, 129.090° E | nukes |
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, 16,102 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 46.583° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 7,149 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° | no — its track stops at 41.5° |
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 36.4° 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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