The local space context of Yangquan 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 | 37.858° N, 113.563° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 731,228 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 94 km WSW (245°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 353 km S (188°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 384 km SW (227°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 410 km ESE (115°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 451 km ENE (59°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 645 km E (81°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 653 km ESE (105°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 685 km E (98°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 698 km ENE (61°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Bayan Hot test range | 701 km W (281°) | 38.758° N, 105.608° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 726 km WNW (290°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| Jinzhou missile base, Liaoning province | 750 km ENE (58°) | 41.190° N, 121.170° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 754 km ENE (76°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 758 km ESE (113°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 832 km NNW (341°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 5 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 234 km ESE (113°) | 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, 20,012 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 37.858° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,239 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 46.1° 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.
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