The local space context of Qiqihar 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 | 47.339° N, 123.962° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 882,364 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbin missile test site, Heilongjiang, Manchuria, China | 273 km SE (129°) | 45.750° N, 126.680° E | gcat-sites |
| Svobodniy, Amurskaya Oblast', Rossiya | 566 km NNE (29°) | 51.700° N, 128.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Vostochniy, Svobodniy, Amurskaya Oblast', Rossiya | 566 km NNE (29°) | 51.700° N, 128.000° E | gcat-sites |
| GIK-2, Svobodniy, Amurskaya Oblast', Rossiya | 581 km NNE (30°) | 51.790° N, 128.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Jingyu missile base 28, Jingyu, Jilin province | 606 km SSE (157°) | 42.298° N, 126.877° E | gcat-sites |
| 406 Brigade Missile Base, Tonghua, Jilin Province | 650 km SSE (165°) | 41.669° N, 125.955° E | gcat-sites |
| Iskander mobile launch site, Everyskaya avtonomnaya oblast | 690 km ENE (74°) | 48.750° N, 133.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Yasnaya missile base, Chita Oblast | 702 km NW (306°) | 50.800° N, 115.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 719 km SSW (199°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| Aginskiy Test Range (247 MP Tsugol) | 742 km NW (307°) | 51.016° N, 115.424° E | gcat-sites |
| Mupyong-ni, Chagang province | 774 km SSE (164°) | 40.611° N, 126.426° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 780 km SSW (200°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Taegwan Kun missile launch site | 801 km S (172°) | 40.200° N, 125.300° E | gcat-sites |
| Novosysoyevka missile base | 805 km ESE (112°) | 44.240° N, 133.360° E | gcat-sites |
| Uiju launch location, N Pyongan province, N Korea | 815 km S (176°) | 40.026° N, 124.578° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 33 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Punggye-ri | 787 km SSE (147°) | 41.280° N, 129.080° E | nuclear-tests |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPRK 2017 | 785 km SSE (147°) | 41.300° N, 129.080° E | nukes |
| DPRK 2006 | 787 km SSE (147°) | 41.280° N, 129.090° E | nukes |
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, 16,075 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 47.339° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 7,176 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° | no — its track stops at 41.5° |
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 35.6° 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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