The local space context of Jiaozhou 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
36.284° N, 120.003° E
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population
619,266 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 60 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Jianggezhuang Submarine Base
55 km ESE (111°)
36.104° N, 120.579° E
gcat-sites
Haiyang test site, Shandong
121 km ENE (61°)
36.800° N, 121.200° E
gcat-sites
Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone
188 km SE (145°)
34.900° N, 121.190° E
gcat-sites
822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province
205 km W (269°)
36.235° N, 117.716° E
gcat-sites
Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here)
259 km NNE (18°)
38.500° N, 120.900° E
gcat-sites
Yellow Sea launch area
306 km ESE (117°)
35.000° N, 123.000° E
gcat-sites
410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province
374 km NNE (28°)
39.229° N, 122.054° E
gcat-sites
51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province
431 km NNW (338°)
39.856° N, 118.093° E
gcat-sites
Huludao Shipyard test site
496 km N (8°)
40.700° N, 120.800° E
gcat-sites
Jangyon (Changyon), S Hwanghae prov.
501 km ENE (63°)
38.250° N, 125.100° E
gcat-sites
Kwail? Launch site in S Hwanghae Province
503 km ENE (60°)
38.426° N, 125.019° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Eunyul, N Hwanghae Prov.
521 km ENE (60°)
38.519° N, 125.183° E
gcat-sites
Anhueng, Taean missile site, Ch'ungch'ong Namdo, Korea
546 km E (87°)
36.410° N, 126.100° E
gcat-sites
Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province
555 km N (10°)
41.190° N, 121.170° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Nampo, South Pyongan Prov. (Pyong'annam-do)
557 km ENE (59°)
38.750° N, 125.500° E
gcat-sites
… and 45 more within 1000 km
Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Punggye-ri
962 km NE (52°)
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, 20,037 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 36.284° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,214 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
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.
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 Jiaozhou 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.