The local space context of Puyang 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 | 35.756° N, 115.044° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 655,674 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 215 km WSW (238°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 246 km ENE (77°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 292 km NW (312°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 417 km W (267°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 500 km E (84°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 529 km NNE (30°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 564 km ENE (76°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 566 km E (98°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 602 km ENE (58°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 660 km SE (143°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 726 km E (94°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 729 km NE (56°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 745 km NE (41°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 779 km SSE (165°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 805 km NE (40°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 16 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 164 km NNE (31°) | 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, 20,048 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 35.756° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,203 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 48.5° 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.
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