The local space context of Zaozhuang 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 | 34.865° N, 117.554° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 3,855,601 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 153 km N (5°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 307 km ENE (62°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 332 km E (88°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 393 km NE (56°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 412 km W (269°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 462 km SSE (160°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 497 km E (87°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 502 km NE (35°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 532 km NW (305°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 557 km N (5°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 584 km SE (136°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 628 km NE (38°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 649 km W (278°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 657 km S (184°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| Ninbgo missile base, Zhejiang province | 678 km SE (144°) | 29.880° N, 121.717° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 30 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 832 km E (100°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6 | 914 km E (90°) | 34.432° N, 127.535° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 277 km NNW (330°) | 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, 20,183 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 34.865° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,068 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 49.5° 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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