The local space context of Zoucheng 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 | 35.401° N, 116.966° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 1,116,692 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 822 Brigade missile base, Laiwu, Shangdong province | 115 km NE (36°) | 36.235° N, 117.716° E | gcat-sites |
| Jianggezhuang Submarine Base | 335 km ENE (75°) | 36.104° N, 120.579° E | gcat-sites |
| Space Pioneer Gongyi Static Test Site | 364 km W (259°) | 34.709° N, 113.051° E | gcat-sites |
| Huang Hai CZ-11 launch zone | 388 km E (97°) | 34.900° N, 121.190° E | gcat-sites |
| Haiyang test site, Shandong | 411 km ENE (67°) | 36.800° N, 121.200° E | gcat-sites |
| Taiyuan weixing fashe zhongxin | 455 km WNW (302°) | 37.500° N, 112.600° E | gcat-sites |
| Bohai launch area (Some Yellow Sea launches may also be here) | 491 km NE (44°) | 38.500° N, 120.900° E | gcat-sites |
| 51St Base, Fengrun, Tangshan, Hebei province | 505 km N (11°) | 39.856° N, 118.093° E | gcat-sites |
| Shijiedu sounding rocket site, Anhui Province | 537 km SSE (156°) | 30.950° N, 119.220° E | gcat-sites |
| Yellow Sea launch area | 550 km E (93°) | 35.000° N, 123.000° E | gcat-sites |
| 806th Brigade missile base, Huanglong, Shaanxi province | 590 km W (273°) | 35.474° N, 110.447° E | gcat-sites |
| 410 Brigate Missile Base, Dengshahe, Liaoning province | 619 km NE (45°) | 39.229° N, 122.054° E | gcat-sites |
| Laogang sounding rocket site, Shanghai Shi, Zhongguo | 664 km SE (136°) | 31.020° N, 121.820° E | gcat-sites |
| Huludao Shipyard test site | 678 km NNE (29°) | 40.700° N, 120.800° E | gcat-sites |
| Leping missile base, Jianxi, China | 715 km S (179°) | 28.970° N, 117.120° E | gcat-sites |
| … and 30 more within 1000 km | |||
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mir | Demo Flight | 897 km ESE (103°) | 33.217° N, 126.367° E | launchlibrary |
| Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6 | 969 km E (93°) | 34.432° N, 127.535° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSCOVY | 200 km NNW (334°) | 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, 20,053 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 35.401° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 3,198 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 48.9° 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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