List of passive satellites

List of passive satellites is a listing of inert or mostly inert satellites, mainly of the Earth. This includes various reflector type satellites typically used for geodesy and atmospheric measurements.

Starshine 2 deployed into space from Space Shuttle Endeavour, in 2001

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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

This section is an excerpt from Satellite laser ranging § List of passive satellites.[edit]

Several dedicated laser ranging satellites were put in orbit:^[13]

• Ajisai (Experimental Geodetic Payload)^[14]
• BLITS^[15]
• Calsphere satellites^[16]
• Etalon^[17]
  • Kosmos 1989
  • Kosmos 2024
• LAGEOS^[18]
  • LAGEOS 1
  • LAGEOS 2, see STS-52
• LARES^[19]
  • LARES 1
  • LARES 2
• Larets^[20][21]
• STARSHINE
  • Starshine 1,^[22] see STS-96
  • Starshine 2, see STS-108
• Starlette and Stella^[23]

Mostly passive satellites

• Starshine 3^[24]
• Echo project^[25]
  • Echo 1 (Echo 1A)
  • Echo 2
• Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
• 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)
• Tianwen-1
  • Tianwen-1 Deployable Camera 1
  • Tianwen-1 Remote Camera
  • Tianwen-1 Deployable Camera 2

See also

• List of laser ranging satellites
• Lunar Laser Ranging experiment
• Balloon satellites
• Satellite geodesy