The local space context of Panjin 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
41.121° N, 122.074° E
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population
1,166,481 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
76 km W (276°)
41.190° N, 121.170° E
gcat-sites
Huludao Shipyard test site
117 km WSW (247°)
40.700° N, 120.800° E
gcat-sites
410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province
210 km S (180°)
39.229° N, 122.054° E
gcat-sites
Uiju launch location, N Pyongan province, N Korea
244 km ESE (119°)
40.026° N, 124.578° E
gcat-sites
Dongrim (Tongrim), N Pyongan Prov.
260 km ESE (121°)
39.900° N, 124.700° E
gcat-sites
Sohae Launch Site, Tongch'ang-dong, Pyongang-bukdo (N Pyongan Prov), N Korea
276 km SE (125°)
39.660° N, 124.706° E
gcat-sites
Sonchon, N Pyongan Prov.
281 km ESE (121°)
39.800° N, 124.900° E
gcat-sites
Taegwan Kun missile launch site
291 km ESE (110°)
40.200° N, 125.300° E
gcat-sites
Musudan launch site, Banghyon Airport, Kusong City, N Pyongan Prov.
297 km ESE (116°)
39.900° N, 125.200° E
gcat-sites
Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here)
308 km SSW (199°)
38.500° N, 120.900° E
gcat-sites
406 Brigade Missile Base, Tonghua, Jilin Province
329 km ENE (78°)
41.669° N, 125.955° E
gcat-sites
Sukchon County launch site, South Pyongan Prov. (Pyong'annam-do), CMIK
355 km ESE (121°)
39.400° N, 125.600° E
gcat-sites
Kaechon, Pyongan Namdo
360 km ESE (115°)
39.700° N, 125.900° E
gcat-sites
51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province
365 km WSW (249°)
39.856° N, 118.093° E
gcat-sites
Sunan Airport, Pyonyang
369 km ESE (123°)
39.267° N, 125.675° 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
586 km E (86°)
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, 19,957 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 41.121° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,294 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
42.5° 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 Panjin 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.