The local space context of Jining 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 | 35.405° N, 116.581° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,241,012 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 138 km NE (48°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 331 km WSW (257°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 369 km ENE (77°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 423 km E (96°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 425 km NW (304°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 443 km ENE (68°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 512 km NNE (15°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 515 km NE (47°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 553 km SSE (153°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 556 km W (273°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 585 km E (93°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 644 km NE (47°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 689 km SE (134°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 695 km NNE (31°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 717 km S (176°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 28 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 931 km ESE (102°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 187 km NNW (344°) | 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, 20,053 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 35.405° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,198 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 48.9° 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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