The local space context of Tai’an 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 | 36.185° N, 117.120° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,735,425 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 54 km E (84°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 311 km E (91°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 371 km ENE (78°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 395 km ESE (110°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 403 km WSW (247°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 417 km NNE (12°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 422 km NE (51°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 428 km WNW (291°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 548 km ESE (102°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 550 km NE (51°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 595 km NNE (31°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 607 km W (264°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 614 km SSE (161°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 658 km NNE (31°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 720 km SE (142°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 40 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 907 km ESE (109°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6 | 964 km E (99°) | 34.432° N, 127.535° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 137 km NW (313°) | 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, 20,039 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 36.185° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,212 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 48.0° 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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