The local space context of Weifang 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
36.710° N, 119.102° E
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population
9,386,705 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 59 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province
135 km WSW (247°)
36.235° N, 117.716° E
gcat-sites
Jianggezhuang Submarine Base
148 km ESE (117°)
36.104° N, 120.579° E
gcat-sites
Haiyang test site, Shandong
187 km E (86°)
36.800° N, 121.200° E
gcat-sites
Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here)
254 km NE (38°)
38.500° N, 120.900° E
gcat-sites
Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone
276 km SE (136°)
34.900° N, 121.190° E
gcat-sites
51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province
361 km NNW (346°)
39.856° N, 118.093° E
gcat-sites
410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province
381 km NE (42°)
39.229° N, 122.054° E
gcat-sites
Yellow Sea launch area
399 km ESE (117°)
35.000° N, 123.000° E
gcat-sites
Huludao Shipyard test site
467 km NNE (18°)
40.700° N, 120.800° E
gcat-sites
Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province
529 km NNE (19°)
41.190° N, 121.170° E
gcat-sites
Kwail? Launch site in S Hwanghae Province
555 km ENE (68°)
38.426° N, 125.019° E
gcat-sites
Jangyon (Changyon), S Hwanghae prov.
556 km ENE (70°)
38.250° N, 125.100° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Eunyul, N Hwanghae Prov.
572 km ENE (68°)
38.519° N, 125.183° E
gcat-sites
Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin
583 km W (281°)
37.500° N, 112.600° E
gcat-sites
Sohae Launch Site, Tongch'ang-dong, Pyongang-bukdo (N Pyongan Prov), N Korea
589 km NE (54°)
39.660° N, 124.706° E
gcat-sites
… and 44 more within 1000 km
Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Punggye-ri
1,000 km ENE (56°)
41.280° N, 129.080° E
nuclear-tests
Announced launches (their pads) — 2 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Mir | Demo Flight
767 km ESE (118°)
33.217° N, 126.367° E
launchlibrary
Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6
803 km ESE (106°)
34.432° N, 127.535° E
launchlibrary
Nuclear detonations — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
MUSCOVY
278 km W (278°)
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.
What can pass overhead
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit
on 2026-10-18, 20,034 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 36.710° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,217 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
47.4° 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 Weifang 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.