The local space context of Feicheng 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 | 36.249° N, 116.766° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 968,100 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 85 km E (91°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 343 km E (92°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 377 km WSW (244°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 396 km WNW (292°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 401 km E (80°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 418 km NNE (16°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 427 km ESE (109°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 443 km NE (54°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 571 km NE (53°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 576 km W (263°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 580 km ESE (102°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 607 km NE (34°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 631 km SSE (158°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 669 km NNE (33°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 746 km SE (140°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 33 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 939 km ESE (108°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6 | 997 km E (99°) | 34.432° N, 127.535° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 110 km NW (321°) | 37.017° N, 115.995° E | nuclear-tests |
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, 20,038 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 36.249° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,213 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 47.9° 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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