The local space context of Linfen 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 | 36.089° N, 111.519° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 959,198 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 118 km SW (235°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 184 km NNE (31°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 207 km SE (137°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 556 km E (87°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 600 km WNW (301°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 668 km NW (311°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 712 km NE (52°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 814 km E (87°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 869 km E (82°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 872 km ENE (69°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 885 km E (96°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 914 km SE (126°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Alashan Youqi airport | 944 km WNW (295°) | 39.226° N, 101.548° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 949 km SE (145°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 957 km NE (55°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 2 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 413 km ENE (74°) | 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, 20,041 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 36.089° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,210 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 48.1° 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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