The local space context of Shangqiu 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 | 34.414° N, 115.656° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,859,723 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 241 km W (279°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 275 km NE (42°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 440 km NW (322°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 485 km ENE (66°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 489 km WNW (285°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 509 km E (82°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 509 km SE (138°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 567 km ENE (61°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 621 km SSE (167°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 642 km NNE (19°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 653 km NE (44°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 674 km E (82°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 689 km ESE (122°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 761 km SE (130°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 781 km NE (45°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 10 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 998 km E (95°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 291 km N (6°) | 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, 20,192 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 34.414° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,059 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 50.0° 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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