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 | 29.457° N, 119.889° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 3,590,000 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenzhou missile base, Zhejiang | 138 km SSE (159°) | 28.300° N, 120.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 178 km NNW (339°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 183 km ENE (75°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 254 km NE (46°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 274 km W (259°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Fuan? missile base | 275 km S (186°) | 27.000° N, 119.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 618 km N (11°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Ganzhou missile base, Brigade 616 | 630 km SW (231°) | 25.800° N, 115.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 682 km NNE (25°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 742 km N (5°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Barge launch site, Jungmun, Jeju I. | 745 km NE (54°) | 33.200° N, 126.400° E | gcat-sites |
| Chio He air base, Pingtung, Formosa (Taiwan) [== JP?] | 765 km S (175°) | 22.600° N, 120.500° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 780 km NNW (346°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiu Peng air base 7, Pingtung, Formosa | 821 km S (173°) | 22.130° N, 120.920° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 826 km N (8°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 3 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 744 km NE (54°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6 | 909 km NE (51°) | 34.432° N, 127.535° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 915 km NNW (338°) | 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, 20,290 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 29.457° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 2,961 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 55.6° 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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