List of passive satellites
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This is a listing of passive satellites – inert or mostly inert satellites, mainly of the Earth. This includes various reflector type satellites typically used for geodesy and atmospheric measurements.
Passive satellites
- Calsphere
- Calsphere 1A
- Calsphere 2
- Calsphere 3
- Calsphere 4
- Calsphere 4A
- Calsphere 5[1]
- Dragsphere 1[2]
- Dragsphere 2[2]
- Enoch[3]
- Explorer 9
- GFZ-1[4]
- Humanity Star[5]
- LCS-1[6]
- PAGEOS
- PAMS-STU, see STS-77[7]
- POPACS[8]
- Reflector[9]
- PasComSat
- Rigid Sphere 1 (AVL-802H)[10]
- Rigid Sphere 2[11]
- Sfera[12]
Dedicated laser ranging satellites
Several dedicated laser ranging satellites were put in orbit:[13]
Mostly passive satellites
- Echo project[24]
- Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
- Echo 2
- Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
- Starshine 3[25]
- Hayabusa2
- Deployable camera 3 (DCAM3)
- Small Carry-On Impactor (SCI)
- Target Marker B
- Target Marker A
- Target Marker E (Explorer)
- Target Marker C (Sputnik/Спутник)
- IKAROS
- Deployable camera 1 (DCAM1)
- Deployable camera 2 (DCAM2)
- SpaceTuna1
- Tianwen-1