The local space context of Heze 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 | 35.239° N, 115.474° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,346,717 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 228 km WSW (256°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 231 km ENE (61°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 360 km NW (315°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 457 km W (275°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 471 km ENE (77°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 522 km E (93°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 543 km ENE (70°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 563 km NNE (23°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 591 km SE (143°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 604 km NE (51°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 685 km E (90°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 714 km SSE (167°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 732 km NE (51°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 754 km SE (127°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 766 km NE (36°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 16 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 203 km NNE (13°) | 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, 20,060 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 35.239° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,191 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 49.1° 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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