The local space context of Hohhot 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 | 40.811° N, 111.652° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 3,446,100 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 377 km SSE (167°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 470 km NNW (345°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 526 km W (260°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 556 km E (99°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 565 km WSW (248°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 603 km S (190°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 689 km S (169°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 733 km SE (132°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 770 km E (88°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 799 km E (84°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 832 km ESE (105°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 878 km W (262°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 902 km E (98°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 936 km ESE (121°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 939 km ESE (115°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 1 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 955 km W (275°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 958 km W (274°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 565 km SE (137°) | 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, 19,964 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 40.811° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,287 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 42.8° 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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