The local space context of Liaoyang 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
41.272° N, 123.173° E
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population
687,890 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 55 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province
168 km W (268°)
41.190° N, 121.170° E
gcat-sites
Uiju launch location, N Pyongan province, N Korea
182 km SE (139°)
40.026° N, 124.578° E
gcat-sites
Dongrim (Tongrim), N Pyongan Prov.
200 km SE (139°)
39.900° N, 124.700° E
gcat-sites
Huludao Shipyard test site
209 km WSW (253°)
40.700° N, 120.800° E
gcat-sites
Taegwan Kun missile launch site
215 km ESE (123°)
40.200° N, 125.300° E
gcat-sites
Sonchon, N Pyongan Prov.
219 km SE (138°)
39.800° N, 124.900° E
gcat-sites
Sohae Launch Site, Tongch'ang-dong, Pyongang-bukdo (N Pyongan Prov), N Korea
221 km SE (144°)
39.660° N, 124.706° E
gcat-sites
Musudan launch site, Banghyon Airport, Kusong City, N Pyongan Prov.
229 km SE (131°)
39.900° N, 125.200° E
gcat-sites
406 Brigade Missile Base, Tonghua, Jilin Province
236 km ENE (78°)
41.669° N, 125.955° E
gcat-sites
410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province
246 km SSW (203°)
39.229° N, 122.054° E
gcat-sites
Mupyong-ni, Chagang province
283 km ESE (104°)
40.611° N, 126.426° E
gcat-sites
Kaechon, Pyongan Namdo
289 km SE (126°)
39.700° N, 125.900° E
gcat-sites
Sukchon County launch site, South Pyongan Prov. (Pyong'annam-do), CMIK
293 km SE (135°)
39.400° N, 125.600° E
gcat-sites
Sunan Airport, Pyonyang
308 km SE (136°)
39.267° N, 125.675° E
gcat-sites
Pyongsong region
323 km SE (133°)
39.250° N, 125.900° E
gcat-sites
… and 40 more within 1000 km
Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Punggye-ri
494 km E (88°)
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, 19,952 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 41.272° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,299 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
42.3° 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 Liaoyang 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.