The local space context of Qingdao 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
36.065° N, 120.380° E
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population
7,172,451 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 60 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Jianggezhuang Submarine Base
18 km ENE (76°)
36.104° N, 120.579° E
gcat-sites
Haiyang test site, Shandong
110 km NE (42°)
36.800° N, 121.200° E
gcat-sites
Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone
149 km SSE (150°)
34.900° N, 121.190° E
gcat-sites
822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province
240 km W (275°)
36.235° N, 117.716° E
gcat-sites
Yellow Sea launch area
265 km ESE (116°)
35.000° N, 123.000° E
gcat-sites
Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here)
275 km N (9°)
38.500° N, 120.900° E
gcat-sites
410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province
381 km NNE (22°)
39.229° N, 122.054° E
gcat-sites
51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province
467 km NNW (335°)
39.856° N, 118.093° E
gcat-sites
Jangyon (Changyon), S Hwanghae prov.
484 km ENE (58°)
38.250° N, 125.100° E
gcat-sites
Kwail? Launch site in S Hwanghae Province
487 km NE (56°)
38.426° N, 125.019° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Eunyul, N Hwanghae Prov.
505 km NE (56°)
38.519° N, 125.183° E
gcat-sites
Anhueng, Taean missile site, Ch'ungch'ong Namdo, Korea
514 km E (84°)
36.410° N, 126.100° E
gcat-sites
Huludao Shipyard test site
517 km N (4°)
40.700° N, 120.800° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Nampo, South Pyongan Prov. (Pyong'annam-do)
542 km NE (55°)
38.750° N, 125.500° E
gcat-sites
T'aesong-ho missile launch site
547 km NE (53°)
38.907° N, 125.440° E
gcat-sites
… and 45 more within 1000 km
Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Punggye-ri
951 km NE (50°)
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, 20,041 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 36.065° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,210 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
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.
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 Qingdao 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.