The local space context of Liaocheng 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 | 36.451° N, 116.002° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,229,768 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 155 km E (98°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 324 km WNW (292°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 330 km SW (235°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 412 km E (94°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 420 km NNE (25°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 465 km E (84°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 488 km ENE (61°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 499 km ESE (109°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 512 km W (259°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 614 km ENE (58°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 630 km NE (40°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 652 km ESE (102°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 680 km SSE (153°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 691 km NE (39°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 808 km SE (137°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 29 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 63 km N (359°) | 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, 20,037 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 36.451° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,214 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 47.7° 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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